Relating to or having the nature of an entity; concerning existence as an independent thing.
From Latin 'entitas' (being, entity) plus the suffix '-ative' (expressing a quality or tendency). This philosophical term emerged in medieval scholastic writing to describe things that exist independently.
Philosophers love this word because it separates things that actually exist as separate beings from things that are just properties or ideas. It's the difference between a chair (entitative) and 'redness' (not entitative by itself)!
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