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Meaning of PRESENCE

Pronunciation:  'prezuns

WordNet Dictionary
  1. [n]  the act of being present
  2. [n]  dignified manner or conduct
  3. [n]  the impression that something is present; "he felt the presence of an evil force"
  5. [n]  an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby
  6. [n]  the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon"

PRESENCE is a 8 letter word that starts with P.


 Synonyms: bearing, comportment, front, mien
 Antonyms: absence, absence
 See Also: attendance, attending, being, beingness, belief, dignity, disembodied spirit, existence, feeling, gravitas, hereness, immanence, immanency, impression, inherence, lordliness, manner, notion, occurrence, omnipresence, opinion, personal manner, proximity, spirit, thereness, ubiety, ubiquitousness, ubiquity



Webster's 1913 Dictionary
   call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

   within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood
   without the intervention of anything that forbids

         Wrath shell be no more Thenceforth, but in thy
         presence joy entire.                  --Milton.

3. Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of
   superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.

         In such a presence here to plead my thoughts.

         An't please your grace, the two great cardinals.
         Wait in the presence.                 --Shak.

4. The whole of the personal qualities of an individual;
   person; personality; especially, the person of a superior,
   as a sovereign.

         The Sovran Presence thus replied.     --Milton.

   noble company.

         Odmar, of all this presence does contain, Give her
         your wreath whom you esteem most fair. --Dryden.

   presence than beauty of aspect.'' --Bacon.

         A graceful presence bespeaks acceptance. -- Collier.

   great personage receives company. --Addison. `` Chambers
   of presence.'' --Bacon.

   faculties are alert, prompt, and acting harmoniously in
   spontaneously or by intuition, just conclusions in sudden