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Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing objective and subjective features of reality and existence.
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
Literature
- Being and Nothingness, a 1943 essay on phenomenological ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Being and Time, a 1927 book by Martin Heidegger
Music
- Being (album), 1974 Wigwam album
- "Being" (Kotoko song)
- "Being" (Lali Esposito song)
- "Being", a song by Opshop, from the album You Are Here
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- On Being, a public radio program about religion
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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