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coexisting

coexisting

3.9
Living or happening at the same time
  • adjective
  • /ˌkoʊɪkˈzɪstɪŋ/
translation icon : coexistente
  • So what we see now is a whole bunch of species coexisting, displaying these different solutions to surviving and adapting.

It is impossible even to get to know all coexisting persons.

Examples

  • And then the really cool thing about most snow clouds is you actually have all three phases of water coexisting at the same time.

  • Different cultures can be coexisting in the same neighborhood, enriching the community with diverse traditions.

  • And so you can have in a single moment multiple states coexisting at the same time.

  • There's been that sort of struggle or battle of those two things coexisting your entire life.

  • Look, this is a great story of innovation coexisting with incumbents.

  • The only situation where you can have stocks and T-bills coexisting in this simple world.

  • This is the metal and oxygen and the oxide all coexisting at equilibrium.

  • Thus, governments have two necessarily contradictory and coexisting modes: "the protective mode" and "the redistributive mode."

    Academic text (1997)
  • In the city park, various species of trees and flowers are coexisting beautifully in the same environment.

  • The new policy allows economic growth while ensuring environmental protection, showing how progress and sustainability can be coexisting.

Synonyms

simultaneous
vscoexisting
47 4.4

Happening at the same time as something else

is used for things that continue together rather than a single instant
concurrent
vscoexisting
21 6.6

Happening at the same time as another thing

leans toward ongoing togetherness and living together over moments
coincident
vscoexisting
1 5.6

Happening at the same time

implies living together over time rather than a narrow time match
coexistent
vscoexisting
6.3

Existing at the same time as something else

expresses ongoing living together rather than a brief simultaneous moment
co-occurrent
vscoexisting
8.8

Happening at the same time as something else

focuses on continued living together rather than single occurrences
coinciding
vscoexisting
4.4

Happening at the same time as another event

highlights shared ongoing presence rather than only exact moment matching
cooccurring
vscoexisting
6.2

Happening at the same time as something else

focuses on steady living together rather than coincidental simultaneous events

Antonyms

829 2.1

Not joined to another thing and kept apart

How Simultaneous

simultaneous
47 4.4
synchronous
  • Specialized
4 7.0
coexisting
3.9
concurrent
21 6.6
overlapping
5 3.5

Surface Forms

coexisting positive

Morphology

coexisting = coexist (transparent) = co + exist + ing

The participial form is a regular suffixation of the verb 'coexist', yielding the adjectival/continuous form.

Etymology

The word coexisting comes from the prefix co- meaning 'together' and exist meaning 'to be', the same parts you see in cooperate or coworker. So coexisting means 'being together at the same time'.