coexistence

English

Alternative forms

• co-existence
• coëxistence (dated)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin co-der.

English co-

English existence

English coexistence

From co- + existence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊ.ɪɡˈzɪs.təns/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˌkəʊ.əɡˈzɪs.təns/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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 June 17, Tom Perkins, “‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 August 2023:

     Cadieux agreed peaceful coexistence was possible.

   • 2023 October 12, Yuval Noah Harari, “Israelis and Palestinians are facing their moment of greatest danger since 1948”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 March 2025:

     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^[3], →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 December 2023:

     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.

Derived terms

• incoexistence
• noncoexistence
• peaceful coexistence

Related terms

• coexist

Translations

two or more things existing together

• Arabic: تَعَايُش m (taʕāyuš)
• Armenian: գոյակցություն (hy) (goyakcʻutʻyun), համագոյատեւում (hamagoyatewum)
• Azerbaijani: birgəyaşayış, birgəmövcudluq, yanaşı yaşama
• Belarusian: суіснава́нне n (suisnavánnje)
• Bulgarian: съвме́стно съществу́ване n (săvméstno săštestvúvane), съжителство (bg) m (săžitelstvo)
• Catalan: coexistència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兩立 / 两立 (zh) (liǎnglì), 共存 (zh) (gòngcún)

• Czech: spolubytí n, koexistence f
• Danish: sameksistens c, koeksistens c
• Dutch: co-existentie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kunekzistado
• Estonian: kooseksisteerimine
• Finnish: yhteiselo (fi), rinnakkaiselo
• French: coexistence (fr) f
• Georgian: თანაარსებობა (tanaarseboba)
• German: Koexistenz (de) f, Zusammenleben (de) n
• Greek: συνύπαρξη (el) f (synýparxi)
• Hebrew: (coexistence of two things) דּוּ־קִיּוּם m (du-kiyúm)
• Hindi: सहजीवन m (sahjīvan)
• Hungarian: együttélés (hu)
• Indonesian: koeksistensi (id)
• Italian: coesistenza (it) f
• Japanese: 共存 (ja) (きょうぞん, kyōzon)
• Korean: 공존(共存) (ko) (gongjon)
• Macedonian: сосуштествување n (sosuštestvuvanje), соживот m (soživot), коегзистенција f (koegzistencija)
• Manx: co-veaghey m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sameksistens m

  Nynorsk: sameksistens m

• Persian: هَمزیستی (fa) (hamzisti)
• Polish: współistnienie (pl) n, koegzystencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: coexistência (pt) f, convívio (pt) m
• Romanian: coexistență (ro) f
• Russian: сосуществова́ние (ru) n (sosuščestvovánije), совме́стное существова́ние n (sovméstnoje suščestvovánije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коегзистѐнција f, су̏живот m

  Latin: koegzistèncija (sh) f, sȕživot (sh) m

• Slovak: koexistencia f, spolužitie n
• Slovene: sobivanje n, sožitje n
• Spanish: coexistencia (es) f
• Swedish: samexistens (sv) c
• Tajik: ҳамзистӣ (hamzisti)
• Ukrainian: співіснува́ння n (spivisnuvánnja)

French

Etymology

From co- +‎ existence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃s/

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

  (file)

Noun

coexistence f (plural coexistences)

1. coexistence

Related terms

• coexister

Further reading

• “coexistence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012