a thing with distinct and independent existence 独立存在物;实体 Church and empire were fused in a single entity. 教会和帝国合为一体。 ■[mass noun]existence; being 存在 entity and nonentity. 存在和不存在。
派生 entitative adjective
(chiefly Philosophy)(主哲).)
语源
late 15th cent. (denoting a thing's existence): from French entité or medieval Latin entitas, from late Latin ens, ent- 'being' (from esse 'be')