1. A feeling of sympathy for someone or something.
2. An anxious feeling; SYN. care, fear.
3. Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; SYN. worry, headache, vexation.
4. Something that interests one because it is important or affects one.
ETYM Late Lat. entitas, from Latin ens, entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. French entité. Related to Essence, Is.
Anything having existence (living or nonliving); SYN. something.
1. A trick.
2. A practical joke.
3. Any small device or tool, often used to trick someone.
1. An object of any sort
2. An entity that is not named specifically
3. An action
4. An event:
5. A special situation
6. A statement regarded as an object; orr />
7. A special objective:
8. A special abstraction
9. Any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence:
10. A persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion:
Assembly of freemen in the Norse lands (Scandinavia) during the medieval period. It could encompass a meeting of the whole nation (Althing) or of a small town or community (Husthing).