BEING
What does "BEING" mean?
A living creature, or the fact or state of existing.
Meanings
- A living, conscious creature. The film imagines beings from a world without sound.
- The fact or condition of existing. The new law came into being last January.
- One's essential nature or innermost self. The music moved her to the depths of her being. formal
- The present participle of 'be', used in continuous tenses and as a gerund. Being early is its own small reward.
Word origin
The present participle and verbal noun of 'be', from Old English 'beon'; philosophers later used it to translate the Latin 'ens' and the Greek concept of 'to on', existence itself.
Remember it
BEING = the act of 'BE' + the '-ING' that keeps it going; existence as a verb that never quite finishes.
A little poem
Not the doing - this:
the bare unbothered fact that
anything is here.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why is 'being' the laziest word in philosophy? It does nothing at all - and yet without it, nothing else could do anything either.
What it teaches
We chase doing and forget being is the harder art: to simply be here, awake, asking nothing of the moment.
Quick facts
What does BEING mean?
A living creature, or the fact or state of existing.
Is BEING a valid word?
Yes — BEING is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is BEING?
BEING has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does BEING come from?
The present participle and verbal noun of 'be', from Old English 'beon'; philosophers later used it to translate the Latin 'ens' and the Greek concept of 'to on', existence itself.
What can BEING teach us?
We chase doing and forget being is the harder art: to simply be here, awake, asking nothing of the moment.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.