exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, pinch |
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(noun) a pressing or urgent situation | - |
(noun) that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. | - |
exigent | (adjective) requiring precise accuracy | Synonyms: exacting |
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(adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant |
exiguity | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness |
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exiguous | (adjective) extremely scanty | - |
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exile | (noun) the act of expelling a person from their native land | Synonyms: deportation, expatriation, transportation |
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(noun) a person who is expelled from home or country by authority | Synonyms: deportee |
(noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: expat, expatriate |
(verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, expatriate |
exilic | (adjective) of or relating to a period of exile (especially the exile of the Jews known as the Babylonian Captivity) | - |
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exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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(verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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(adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
(adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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(adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
(adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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(noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
existing | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existent |
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(adjective) presently existing | - |
(adjective) existing in something specified | - |
exit | (noun) the act of going out | - |
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(noun) an opening that permits escape or release | Synonyms: issue, outlet, way out |
(noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, expiration, going, loss, passing, release |
(verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
(verb) lose the lead | - |
(verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: get out, go out, leave |