beings
Creatures that exist
Beings are entities that exist—creatures, persons, or things with existence.
The word often implies consciousness or life: human beings, sentient beings, living beings.
It can suggest something beyond the ordinary physical world: celestial beings, supernatural beings.
A person's whole being is their complete self—body, mind, and spirit together: She felt it in her very being.
Multicellular mobile organisms
- organismsIndividual living entities
- lifeformsLiving biological entities
- speciesFinest taxonomic rank
- faunaAnimal life collectively
wildlife · mammals · birds · reptiles · amphibians · insects · fish · vertebrates
State of sentient awareness
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- sapienceProfound intellectual discernment
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
self-awareness · perception · reasoning · thought · emotions · understanding · wisdom · intellect
Immaterial human essences
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
angels · demons · djinn · ethereal · afterlife · reincarnation · possession · haunting
Humans as a group
- personsIndividual humans, plural
- individualsSeparate, distinct people
- humanityPeople as a whole
- humankindAll human beings collectively
mortals · souls · citizens · inhabitants · populace · mankind · womankind · children
Worshipped supernatural beings
- godsSupernatural beings worshipped
- goddessesDivine feminine beings
- titansDominant powerful figures
- nymphsMinor female nature deities
sirens · centaurs · minotaur · gorgons · hydra · pegasus · cyclopes · valkyries
Beings from other worlds
- UFOUnidentified aerial craft
- ETAlien abbreviation
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- cosmicPertaining to the universe
interstellar · Roswell · abduction · encounter · saucer · SETI · xenobiology · otherworldly
animals
Multicellular mobile organisms
fauna · wildlife · mammals · birds · reptiles · amphibians · insects · fish · vertebrates · invertebrates
consciousness
State of sentient awareness
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- sapienceProfound intellectual discernment
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
intelligence · self-awareness · perception · reasoning · thought · emotions · understanding · wisdom · intellect · subjectivity
souls
Immaterial human essences
- spiritsLiquor or apparitions
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- apparitionsSupernatural visible manifestations
ancestors · angels · demons · djinn · ethereal · afterlife · reincarnation · possession · haunting · astral
people
Humans as a group
- personsIndividual humans, plural
- individualsSeparate, distinct people
- humanityPeople as a whole
humankind · mortals · souls · citizens · inhabitants · populace · mankind · womankind · children · adults
deities
Worshipped supernatural beings
nymphs · sirens · centaurs · minotaur · gorgons · hydra · pegasus · cyclopes · valkyries · dryads
aliens
Beings from other worlds
- UFOUnidentified aerial craft
- ETAlien abbreviation
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
cosmic · interstellar · Roswell · abduction · encounter · saucer · SETI · xenobiology · otherworldly · visitors
- beingsentities, entity, creatures, creature, lifeforms
- life formsorganisms, organism, lifeforms, animal, creatures
- existencelives, reality, life, actuality, realities
- HeideggerDasein, authenticity, inauthenticity, care, aletheia
- existentsentities, things, actualities, particulars, objects
- peoplepeople, persons, person, individuals, humans
beingsnothingness
Complete absence of existence
nonexistence · nonentities · voids · void · absences
beingsabstractions
Non-concrete conceptual ideas
concepts · abstracts · ideas · notions · principles
- human beingMember of Homo sapiens
- being honestStating facts sincerely
- being lateFailure to arrive promptly
- being bornStarting to exist
- being watchedSubject to surveillance
- being thereState of attending