Subsistence Definition

səb-sĭstəns
noun
Existence; being; continuance.
Webster's New World
The act of providing sustenance.
Webster's New World
Means of support or livelihood; often, specif., the barest means in terms of food, clothing, and shelter needed to sustain life.
Webster's New World
The quality of being inherent.
Webster's New World
Hypostasis.
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Other Word Forms of Subsistence

Noun

Singular:
subsistence
Plural:
subsistences

Origin of Subsistence

  • From Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability"), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist"); see subsist.

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