Added 8 October 2026
entity
/ˈɛn.tɪt.i/ noun
Latin root: entitās Wiktionary
noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about entity at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit, often used for organizations which have no physical form.
- The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
- Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual elements or parts of the same type.
Origin
From the Medieval Latin entitās, from ēns (“being”) (stem: ent-) + -tās (compare essentia), see there for more information.
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