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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Entity \En"ti*ty\, n.; pl. {Entities}. [LL. entitas, fr. L. ens,
     entis, thing, prop. p. pr. of esse to be: cf. F. entit['e].
     See {Essence}, {Is}.]
     A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or
     in fact; being; essence; existence.
  
           Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality.
                                                    --Shairp.
  
           Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative
           signification.                           --Bentley.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  entity
       n : that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own
           distinct existence (living or nonliving)

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