noun
Date: 14th century
1. reality as opposed to appearance, reality as presented in experience, c. the totality of existent things, a particular being , sentient or living being ; life ,
2. the state or fact of having being especially independently of human consciousness and as contrasted with nonexistence , the manner of being that is common to every mode of being, being with respect to a limiting condition or under a particular aspect, actual or present occurrence