Hypertext Webster Gateway: "entities"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Entity \En"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Entities}. [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens,
entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entit['e].
See {Essence}, {Is}.]
A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or
in fact; being; essence; existence.
Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.
--Shairp.
Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative
signification. --Bentley.
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