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PRESENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of being present
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("presence" is a kind of...):
attendance; attending (the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.))
Antonym:
absence (failure to be present)
Derivation:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Dignified manner or conduct
Synonyms:
bearing; comportment; mien; presence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("presence" is a kind of...):
manner; personal manner (a way of acting or behaving)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "presence"):
dignity; gravitas; lordliness (formality in bearing and appearance)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The impression that something is present
Example:
he felt the presence of an evil force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("presence" is a kind of...):
belief; feeling; impression; notion; opinion (a vague idea in which some confidence is placed)
Derivation:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The immediate proximity of someone or something
Example:
he was well behaved in front of company
Synonyms:
front; presence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("presence" is a kind of...):
proximity (the region close around a person or thing)
Derivation:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
Sense 5
Meaning:
An invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("presence" is a kind of...):
disembodied spirit; spirit (any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The state of being present; current existence
Example:
he tested for the presence of radon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("presence" is a kind of...):
being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)
Attribute:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
absent (not being in a specified place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "presence"):
immanence; immanency (the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain)
inherence; inherency (the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic)
ubiety (the state of existing and being localized in space)
omnipresence; ubiquitousness; ubiquity (the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once))
hereness (the state of being here in this place)
thereness (the state of being there--not here--in position)
thereness (real existence)
occurrence (an instance of something occurring)
shadow (a dominating and pervasive presence)
Antonym:
absence (the state of being absent)
Derivation:
present (being or existing in a specified place)
Context examples:
It is characterized by the presence of thick, scaly patches of skin.
(Actinic (Solar) Keratosis, NCI Thesaurus)
At last I told him about the mark upon your forehead, and he decided he would admit you to his presence.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
And very quietly he smelled the air and read the message it bore of a strange god's presence.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
With wonderful presence of mind, Don Pedro, the cruel sire, rushed in, dragged out his daughter, with a hasty aside...
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I opened it in his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made in the country from which I had been so strangely delivered.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
A morphologic variant of acinar adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland characterized by the presence of signet ring malignant cells.
(Acinar Prostate Adenocarcinoma, Signet Ring Variant, NCI Thesaurus)
The other most important aspect on December 25 is Jupiter’s tight presence to the Sun and new moon, the reason this eclipse will be so joyous.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It may be idiopathic, drug-induced, or it may be associated with the presence of an endocrine disorder or malignancy.
(Acanthosis Nigricans, NCI Thesaurus)
What is the scientific mind to think of their presence?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Somehow Arthur feels very, very close to me. I seem to feel his presence warm about me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
