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COEXISTENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coexistence mean?
• COEXISTENCE (noun)
The noun COEXISTENCE has 1 sense:
1. existing peacefully together
Familiarity information: COEXISTENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Existing peacefully together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("coexistence" is a kind of...):
being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)
Derivation:
coexist (coexist peacefully, as of nations)
coexistent (existing at the same time)
Context examples
Coexistence of Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the same anatomic site.
(Composite lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The coexistence of two or more disease processes.
(Comorbidity, NCI Thesaurus)
The coexistence of a chronic inflammatory process with a superimposed polymorphonuclear neutrophilic infiltration.
(Chronic Active Inflammation, NCI Thesaurus)
A rare congenital heart anomaly in which there is coexistence of tetralogy of Fallot and complete atrioventricular septal defect.
(Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect with Tetralogy of Fallot, NCI Thesaurus)
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