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Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence.

Contents

• Grammar and linguistics
• Science and philosophy
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Other uses
• See also

Being may also refer to:

Grammar and linguistics

• Being, the present participle and gerund form of the English verb to be

Science and philosophy

• Being in itself, a term from 20th-century philosophy
• Category of being, the metaphysical classification of all beings
• Ego (religion), spiritual or religious "beingness"
• Great chain of being, the rationalist classification of all beings
• Human being
• Human beings in Buddhism
• Reference failure, a concept of Bertrand Russell involving fictional beings
• Sentient beings (Buddhism), a type of being
• Supreme Being (disambiguation), the highest in the hierarchy of beings
• Digital being, an artificially intelligent machine

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Being and Nothingness , a 1943 essay on phenomenological ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
• Being and Time , a 1927 book by Martin Heidegger
• Being (album), 1974 Wigwam album
• Beings (album), a 2015 album by Lanterns on the Lake
• "Being" (Kotoko song)
• "Being" (Lali Esposito song)
• "Being", a song by Opshop, from the album You Are Here
• On Being , a public radio program about religion
• Beings (film), a 1998 British fantasy adventure film
• Being, a 2019 sci-fi drama film starring Lance Henriksen

Other uses

• Being (company), Japanese company
• Energy being, a fictional lifeform
• Liminal being, a fictional lifeform

See also

• Being Human (disambiguation)
• Ontology, the study of being
• Ousia, Greek for being

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