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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
coexistence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
peaceful coexistence (=when people live together without fighting or arguing)
▪ Blacks and whites lived in peaceful coexistence.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
peaceful
▪ We can do this by presenting societies whose ideological construction of human nature and behaviour is such as to favour peaceful coexistence.
▪ Nixon contends that we are heading into a period of peaceful coexistence in the world.
▪ Rational persuasion is thus the foundation of peaceful coexistence.
▪ That is the logic of peaceful coexistence, that is the historical logic of Stalinism. 8.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Of all the peculiar effects of musical tragedy, the most remarkable is the coexistence of opposite impressions.
▪ Over time, coexistence was inevitable, involving compromise and limited mutual tolerance.
▪ Rational persuasion is thus the foundation of peaceful coexistence.
▪ So long as rocks the boat too much, coexistence can be harmonious.
▪ That is the logic of peaceful coexistence, that is the historical logic of Stalinism. 8.
▪ Uniplex says it will provide application programming interfaces and gateways between onGO and its existing software to insure migration and coexistence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coexistence

Coexistence \Co`ex*ist"ence\, n. Existence at the same time with another; -- contemporary existence.

Without the help, or so much as the coexistence, of any condition.
--Jer. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
coexistence

also co-existence, mid-15c., "joint existence;" see co- + existence. As "peaceful relations between states of different ideologies," 1954, a Cold War term.

Wiktionary
coexistence

n. the state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spacial sense, with or without mutual interaction

WordNet
coexistence

n. existing peacefully together

Wikipedia
Coexistence

Coexistence may refer to:

  • Coexistence (political party), Czechoslovak and later Slovak political party
  • Peaceful coexistence, Soviet theory regarding relations between the socialist and capitalist blocs, and more generally the coexistence of different states in the international system
  • Coexistence of similar species in similar environments; see coexistence theory
  • Coexistence of multiple national groups within a polity; see plurinationalism
  • COEXISTENCE (exhibition)
Coexistence (political party)

Coexistence was a political party in Czechoslovakia and Slovakia between 1990 and 1998. Although largely a Hungarian minority party, its membership also included Germans, Poles, Ruthenians and Ukrainians.

Usage examples of "coexistence".

In Part II we also consider the possible coexistence of primitive hominids and anatomically modern humans not only in the distant past but in the present.

Why the mammals would prevail after the long coexistence is problematic for any competition theory.

The coexistence of a floating kidney in this case may have been responsible for this hemorrhage, and in reading reports of so-called menstruation due consideration must be given to the existence of any other than menstrual derangement before we can accept the cases as true vicarious hemorrhage.

He began delivering a captainlike lecture on coexistence and the Cissaldan--bored--vanished, to find a more suitable mate.

The fact that the hippies and the squares have worked out such a peaceful coexistence seems to baffle the powers at City Hall.

In short: while on the left side of his all-red leaflets super Matern makes himself known as someone who wishes to hasten the end of the decadent Western social order, the un-printed part of the same-leaflets is filled with: graphs of costs, stock-market quotations, antitrust regulations -- what a visual anticipation of present-day coexistence!

The old shamans faced this problem of coexistence without concerning themselves with time and space.

That is why they feared coexistence - for should an enemy ever reach where he had reached, their immortality would be lost.

I know it will be difficult, but I should like to maintain a peaceful coexistence for the sake of our children.

All they got was a bang on the table and an angry 'nere is no ideological coexistence possiblel' I've had the same treatment twice.

I've got just so much time and money, I hadn't planned on Mykonos, why the hell do you have to drag me into this, why the hell can't you take peaceful coexistence at its face value and stop rocking the boat, a plague on both your houses, there's not much difference between You and Them, so why expect me to get excited?

Even if the Yevetha have embraced the idea of peaceful coexistence with their neighbors, they're not likely to welcome someone barging in through their shipping lanes.

I have come to expect ruthless disregard for human life from the enemy, since species like the Quern, Deng, and Melconians operate under a belief system that does not include coexistence with another sentient, let alone space-faring, species.

Yet she was also aware that the Corviki audience understood the conflict of the two warring energy-groups, of the desire of the two new, but not shallow, entities to combine into a new force group, of the energy-stoking of herself as the Nurse, of the brilliant light of beta particles exchanged by the two new entities, swearing neuron coalitions and, finally, forced to expend the vital energy of their cores to bring the warring groups to the realization that coexistence was possible on their energy level.

And there is another message you can carry back to your race: we are prepared to live in peaceful coexistence with anyone but we'll annihilate ruthlessly all who attack us.