sub|sist|ence

sub|sist|ence
sub|sist|ence «suhb SIHS tuhns», noun.
1. the condition or fact of keeping alive; living: »

Selling papers was the poor old man's only means of subsistence.

2. a means of keeping alive; livelihood: »

The sea provides a subsistence for fishermen.

3. continued existence; continuance.
4. Philosophy. a) the individualizing of substance, especially as a particular rational (human) being standing apart from all others but possessing certain rights, powers, and functions in common with all others of the same type. b) the condition of subsisting.
5. Obsolete. the condition or quality of inhering or residing (in something).
╂[< Late Latin subsistentia < Latin subsistēns, -entis, present participle of subsistere; see etym. under subsist (Cf. ↑subsist)]

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