English Explanatory Dictionary

essent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. that which is; an entity, a being, an existent

Pronunciation

/ˈɛsənt/

Word forms

essent essents

Etymology

Coined by Ralph Manheim in his 1959 English translation of Martin Heidegger’s Einführung in die Metaphysik to render German Seiendes (as distinct from Sein), on the basis of essens, a faux-Latin present participle of sum.

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