What does the word entity mean?

Usage examples for entity

  1. If it were an entity in itself, it would have moved off somewhere else, but you are well aware that it has not done so, for it never had any real existence; real as it seemed, so real that you were able to give it a name, it never did more than show the place that needed to be filled with light. – The New Theology by R. J. Campbell
  2. He wondered who " he" really was- not that it mattered greatly, for the entity required to make " him" a normal man had perhaps been destroyed, or had become part of some giant anthropoid to be used later in Barter's ghastly experiments. – The Mind Master by Arthur J. Burks
  3. Society- using the word in its broad sense- has heretofore been regarded as a vague tremendous entity imposing a uniformity of opinion and action on the individual, under penalty of a like vague tremendous disapproval for insubordination. – Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne
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