English Explanatory Dictionary

entity

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
  2. The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
  3. Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
  4. The state or quality of being or existence.
  5. A spirit, ghost, or the like.
  6. An alien lifeform that has no corporeal body.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛn.tɪ.ti/ En-us-entity.ogg

Word forms

entity entities

Etymology

From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.

Synonyms

entity

Antonyms

nonentity variety

Related words

entity alignment Entity List entity relationship diagram entity-relationship diagram entity-relationship model entity tag duality entirety identity relationship trinity existence Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 1. Existence

Derived words

entitative entitic entitize entitylike
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on E Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary