entity
/ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi]
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.12 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
noun
The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
noun
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.
name
The central intelligence agency of the Holy See, which conducts foreign intelligence for the Vatican City and Catholic Church.
Example Sentences
- "The organisational and administrative tasks involved in welding the railways into a single entity have also received much publicity."
- "It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities."
- "Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”."
- "The monitor overseeing the Trump Organization’s finances wrote in its latest report that Donald Trump’s company intends to create 25 new entities for products or hotel licensing deals."
- "The group successfully maintains its tribal entity."
- "[B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt Proto-Italic *ezom~*som Archaic Latin 𐌄𐌔𐌏𐌌 (esom) Old Latin esum Latin sumbf. Latin ēns Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Medieval Latin entitāsbor. English entity From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
Word Breakdown
- Root: entitās
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɛn.tə.ti/ [-tʰi]
- British English: /ˈɛn.tɪt.i/
Usage
Inflected Forms
entities (plural)
the Entity (canonical)
Derived Forms
Phrases
entity alignment
Entity Bean
entity identifier
Entity List
entity-relationship diagram
entity-relationship model
entity tag
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 1. Existence