It reminded me that he had a separate, distinct existence.

Villages have no separate corporate existence from the towns they are in.

But they think that art has a quite separate existence from fact.

We know the limitations of our separate existence and individual will.

National Tea no longer has a separate existence as a retail chain.

An eccentric family lives in separate existence from the outside world.

This meant that the individual, separate existence of each and every thing is unjust.

But generally it seems to imply a separate existence from the surrounding majority.

The communities had a separate and quiet existence until 1980s.

Still, an Other can lead separate existences, eventually to bring them together in the original being.