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• entity
  that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)
• physical entity
  an entity that has physical existence
• abstraction, abstract entity
  a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
• thing
  a separate and self-contained entity
• object, physical object
  a tangible and visible entity
• whole, unit
  an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity
• congener
  a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another
• living thing, animate thing
  a living (or once living) entity
• organism, being
  a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
• benthos
  organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea
• dwarf
  a plant or animal that is atypically small
• heterotroph
  an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
• parent
  an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
• life
  living things collectively
• biont
  a discrete unit of living matter
• cell
  (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
• causal agent, cause, causal agency
  any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
• person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
  a human being
• animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
  a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
• plant, flora, plant life
  (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
• native
  indigenous plants and animals
• natural object
  an object occurring naturally
• substance
  the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
• substance
  a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties
• matter
  that which has mass and occupies space
• food, nutrient
  any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
• nutrient
  any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis
• artifact, artefact
  a man-made object taken as a whole
• article
  one of a class of artifacts
• psychological feature
  a feature of the mental life of a living organism
• cognition, knowledge, noesis
  the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
• motivation, motive, need
  the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal
• attribute
  an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
• state
  the way something is with respect to its main attributes
• feeling
  the experiencing of affective and emotional states
• location
  a point or extent in space
• shape, form
  the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
• time
  the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
• space, infinite
  the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
• absolute space
  physical space independent of what occupies it
• phase space
  (physics) an ideal space in which the coordinate dimensions represent the variables that are required to describe a system or substance
• event
  something that happens at a given place and time
• process, physical process
  a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
• act, deed, human action, human activity
  something that people do or cause to happen
• group, grouping
  any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
• relation
  an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
• possession
  anything owned or possessed
• social relation
  a relation between living organisms (especially between people)
• communication
  something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
• measure, quantity, amount
  how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
• phenomenon
  any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning