PREEXISTENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preexistence mean? 

• PREEXISTENCE (noun)
  The noun PREEXISTENCE has 1 sense:

1. existing in a former state or previous to something else

  Familiarity information: PREEXISTENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREEXISTENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Existing in a former state or previous to something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("preexistence" is a kind of...):

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)

Derivation:

preexist (exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time)

preexistent (existing previously or before something)