coexistence

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co- +‎ existence

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coexistence (countable and uncountable, plural coexistences)

  1. The state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spatial sense, with or without mutual interaction.
    • 2023 October 12, Yuval Noah Harari, “Israelis and Palestinians are facing their moment of greatest danger since 1948”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      The day of horror Israel has just experienced signals the end of the Netanyahu experiment in violent coexistence.
    • 2023 November 12, Sam Jones, “Fresh protests held across Spain over amnesty deal for Catalan separatists”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      While the PSOE’s leader and caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, argues that the act of clemency would help promote coexistence after the tumultuous political and territorial crisis of 2017, his opponents have decried the move as a cynical and self-serving means of remaining in power.

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Etymology[edit]

From co- +‎ existence.

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  • IPA(key): /kɔ.ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃s/
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Noun[edit]

coexistence f (plural coexistences)

  1. coexistence

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