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coexistence

coexistence

16 4.2
Living together in the same place at the same time, often peacefully despite differences
  • noun
  • /ˌkoʊɪɡˈzɪstəns/
translation icon : coexistencia
  • Your statesmen and politicians keep talking about peaceful coexistence, but here in our milieu, we really practice it.
  • peaceful coexistence
  • harmonious coexistence
  • mutual coexistence

So we have a very peaceful coexistence where they pretend it never happened.

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Examples

  • I accept in the name of goodwill, with hope for peaceful coexistence of our two worlds.

  • You and I, Alison Palmer, we have, somehow, a long life of peaceful coexistence.

  • But you have the right to the peaceful coexistence in your home with your wife.

  • So we have a very peaceful coexistence where they pretend it never happened.

  • And if he can't, he needs to find a path towards coexistence, however difficult that is.

  • He's not only proof that coexistence is possible, he is the key to it.

  • If we're to live together in peaceful coexistence... there must be a certain amount of give-and-take.

  • In this era, humanity needs to learn the importance of coexistence and the dignity entailed in being human.

    Academic text (2015)
  • As Wande Abimbola has observed, "there is no peaceful coexistence between the two powers."

    Academic text (2008)
  • In this era, humanity needs to learn the importance of coexistence and the dignity entailed in being human.

Antonyms

172 3.7

A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally

135 4.1

To be against something or not agree with it

How Peaceful

harmony
146 2.5
cooperation
443 2.5
tolerance
160 3.7
coexistence
16 4.2
tension
509 3.2
conflict
397 2.3
war
1.0

Surface Forms

coexistence singular
coexistences plural

Morphology

coexistence = coexist (transparent) = co + exist + ence

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ence' to the verb 'coexist'; the meaning 'state or condition of coexisting' is directly predictable.

Etymology

Coexistence comes from the small part co- meaning 'together' and the word exist meaning 'to be'. So to coexist is to 'be together', and coexistence is the state of living or existing together, often peacefully despite differences.