Subject – ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense of person owing obedience): from Old French suget, from Latin subjectus ‘brought under,’ past participle of subicere, from sub– ‘under’ + jacere ‘throw.’
Object – ORIGIN late Middle English : from medieval Latin objectum ‘thing presented to the mind,’ neuter past participle (used as a noun) of Latin obicere, from ob– ‘in the way of’ + jacere ‘to throw.’
Substance – ORIGIN Middle English (denoting the essential nature of something): from Old French, from Latin substantia ‘being, essence,’ from substant– ‘standing firm,’ from the verb substare, sub– ‘under, close to’ + stare ‘to stand.’
Existence – ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French, or from late Latin existentia, from Latin exsistere ‘come into being,’ from ex– ‘out’ + sistere ‘take a stand.’
Essence – ORIGIN late Middle English : via Old French from Latin essentia, from esse ‘be.’
Immanence – ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from late Latin immanent– ‘remaining within,’ from in– ‘in’ + manere ‘remain.’
Transcendence – ORIGIN late Middle English : from Latin transcendent– ‘climbing over,’ from the verb transcendere, from trans– ‘across’ + scandere ‘climb.’.
Appearance – ORIGIN late Middle English : from Old French aparance, aparence, from late Latin apparentia, from Latin apparere, from ad– ‘toward’ + parere ‘come into view.’
Revelation – ORIGIN Middle English (in the theological sense): from Old French, or from late Latin revelatio(n-), from revelare ‘lay bare’, from re– ‘again’ (expressing reversal) + velum ‘veil.’
Manifestation – ORIGIN late Middle English : from late Latin manifestatio(n-), from the verb manifestare ‘make public.’
Phenomenon – ORIGIN late 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek phainomenon ‘thing appearing to view,’ based on phainein ‘to show.’
Intention – ORIGIN Middle English entend (in the sense of direct the attention to), from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere ‘intend, extend, direct,’ from in– ‘toward’ + tendere ‘stretch, tend.’
Articulate – ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from Latin articulatus, past participle of articulare ‘divide into joints, utter distinctly,’ from articulus ‘small connecting part’, diminutive of artus ‘joint.’
Concept – ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French concevoir, from Latin concipere, from com– ‘together’ + capere ‘take.’
Notion – ORIGIN late Middle English : from Latin notio(n-) ‘idea,’ from notus ‘known,’ past participle of noscere.
Idea – ORIGIN late Middle English : via Latin from Greek idea ‘form, pattern,’ from the base of idein ‘to see.’
Ideologue – ORIGIN late 18th cent. : from French idéologie, from Greek idea ‘form, pattern’ + –logos (denoting discourse or compilation).
Dialogue – ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French dialoge, via Latin from Greek dialogos, from dialegesthai ‘converse with,’ from dia ‘through, across’ + legein ‘speak.’
Thesis – ORIGIN late Middle English : via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘placing, a proposition,’ from the root of tithenai ‘to place.’
Antithesis – ORIGIN late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against,’ from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place.’ The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th cent.
Synthesis – ORIGIN early 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek sunthesis, from suntithenai ‘place together.’
Proposition – ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin pro– ‘forward’ + posit– ‘placed,’ from the verb ponere.
Assertion – ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin asserere ‘claim, affirm,’ from ad– ‘to’ + serere ‘to join.’
Negation – ORIGIN early 17th cent. : from Latin negat– ‘denied,’ from the verb negare.
Sublation – ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from Latin sublat– ‘taken away,’ from sub– ‘from below’ + lat– (from the stem of tollere ‘take away’ ).
Cancellation – ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense of obliterate or delete writing by drawing or stamping lines across it): from Old French canceller, from Latin cancellare, from cancelli ‘crossbars.’
Erasure – ORIGIN late 16th cent. (originally as a heraldic term meaning represent the head or limb of an animal with a jagged edge): from Latin eras– ‘scraped away,’ from the verb eradere, from e– (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + radere ‘scrape.’
Eradication – ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense of pull up by the roots): from Latin eradicat– ‘torn up by the roots,’ from the verb eradicare, from e– (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + radix, radic– ‘root.’
Annihilation – ORIGIN late Middle English (originally as an adjective meaning destroyed, annulled): from late Latin annihilatus ‘reduced to nothing,’ from the verb annihilare, from ad– ‘to’ + nihil ‘nothing.’ The verb sense of destroy utterly dates from the mid 16th cent.
Overcoming – ORIGIN Old English ofercuman. Old English ofer (of Germanic origin; related to Dutch over and German über, from an Indo-European word – originally a comparative of the element represented by –ove in above – which is also the base of Latin super and Greek huper/hyper) + cuman, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch komen and German kommen.
Sublimation – ORIGIN late Middle English in the sense of raise to a higher status) : from Latin sublimat– ‘raised up,’ from the verb sublimare, from sub– ‘up to’ + a second element perhaps related to limen ‘threshold,’ limus ‘oblique.’
Speculative – ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin speculat– ‘observed from a vantage point,’ from the verb speculari, from specula ‘watchtower,’ from specere ‘to look.’
Perspective – ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘optics’ ): from medieval Latin perspectiva (ars) ‘science of optics,’ from perspect– ‘looked at closely,’ from the verb perspicere, from per– ‘through’ + specere ‘to look.’