entity meaning
EN
[ˈen.tɪ.ti] 
US WEntity
- An entity is something that exists in itself, actually or potentially, concretely or abstractly, physically or not. It need not be of material existence. In particular, abstractions and legal fictions are usually regarded as entities.
- The word may refer, for example, to Bucephalus, the horse of Alexander; to a stone; to a cardinal number; to a language; or to ghosts or other spirits.
- The word entitative is the adjective form of the noun entity. Something that is entitative is considered in its own right.
- NounPLentitiesPREent-SUF-ity
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
- The existence of something considered apart from its properties.
- (databases) Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, an organised array or set of individual elements or parts.
- The state or quality of being or existence.
- The group successfully maintains its tribal entity.
- That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Patients suffered from tumor entities including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC; n = 636), hepatic metastases (n = 158) and cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC; n = 31).
- Allism is the position of those who think that all these entities actually exist, and moreover, everything we can speak meaningfully about in some sense exists.
- This process of misrecognizing one's self in the image in the mirror creates the ego, the entity that says 'I.'
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of entity in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en entity-relationship model
- en entity-relationship models
- en entity relationship diagram
- en entity-relationship diagram
- en entity relationship diagrams
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "entity" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.