Entity
Entity noun - One that has a real and independent existence.
Usage example: the question of whether extrasensory perception will ever be a scientifically recognized entity
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Synonyms for Entity
Substance
Substance noun - One that has a real and independent existence.
Usage example: the question of whether the soul is a substance entirely independent of the body
Entity is a synonym for substance in essence topic. You can use "Entity" instead a noun "Substance", if it concerns topics such as nature, being.
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How words are described
| physical | physical entity | physical substance |
| similar | similar entity | similar substance |
| specific | specific entity | specific substance |
| certain | certain entity | certain substance |
| Other adjectives: alien, single, powerful, actual, real, dangerous, dark, capable, white, new, mysterious, mystical, unknown, titular, strange, different, able, foreign, magical, eponymous. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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If the focus is obtaining profit from a substance generated by the entity, it's Mainlining the Monster.
Source: Captured Super-Entity -
Sergeant Schlock's drug of choice being a powdery substance named Ovalqwik, one can infer that the brands Ovomaltine (Ovaltine in the US) and Nestle's Quik have also become a single entity.
Source: Coca-Pepsi, Inc. - Peer is fighting an entity in pitch darkness, no substance whatsoever - and it is always avoiding direct confrontation.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Other
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Substance and Entity. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/entity/substance
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