state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"

actuality - the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"

timeless existence, timelessness, eternity - a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife

preexistence - existing in a former state or previous to something else

coexistence - existing peacefully together

subsistence - the state of existing in reality; having substance

presence - the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon"

life - the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"

aliveness, animation, living, life - the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"

life - a characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life"

transcendence, transcendency - a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience

possibleness, possibility - capability of existing or happening or being true; "there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired"

natural object - an object occurring naturally; not made by man

extragalactic nebula, galaxy - (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'"

celestial body, heavenly body - natural objects visible in the sky

closed universe - (cosmology) a universe in which there is sufficient matter to halt the expansion that began with the big bang and to cause the universe to collapse again; the visible matter is only 10 percent of the matter required for closure but there may be large amounts of dark matter

estraterrestrial body, extraterrestrial object - a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere

natural order - the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws

nature - the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.; "they tried to preserve nature as they found it"