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subsistence

noun
/səbˈsɪstəns/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from subsistēns
  2. derived from subsistentia
  3. derived from subsistence
  4. inherited from subsistence

Definitions

  1. Real being

    Real being; existence.

    • the human nature loseth its proper subsistence , and is assumed into the subsistence of the divine nature

  2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.

  3. Inherency.

    • the subsistence of qualities in bodies
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.

      • In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
      • His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

    2. Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

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Derived

consubsistence, nonsubsistence, subsistence crop, subsistence economy, subsistence farming, subsistence level, subsistential

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at subsistence. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at subsistence. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at subsistence

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA