subsistence
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) Real being; existence.
- (countable, uncountable) The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
- (countable, uncountable) Inherency.
- (countable, uncountable) Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
- (countable, uncountable) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.
Synonyms
means of livelihood
necessities of life
bare livelihood
means of living
necessary thing
tiving
act of providing
Translations
subsistencia
Lebensunterhalt
sussistenza
subsistance
levensonderhoud
ύπαρξη
subsistência
subsistènciaPronounced as (IPA)
/səbˈsɪstəns/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English subsistence; partly from Middle French subsistence (modern French subsistance) and partly from its etymon Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistēns, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). Perhaps also partly from subsist + -ence.
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