Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute. · Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.
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