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Actuality vs Subsistence - What's the difference?

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Actuality is a related term of subsistence.


As nouns the difference between actuality and subsistence

is that actuality is the state of existing; existence while subsistence is real being; existence.

actuality

English

Noun

(actualities)
  • the state of existing; existence
  • the quality of being actual or factual; fact
  • (historical) a short early motion picture
  • By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two. The Variety Stage collection

    subsistence

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Real being; existence.
  • Inherency; as, the subsistence of qualities in bodies.
  • Means of support; provisions, or that which produces provisions; livelihood; That which furnishes support to animal life; as, a meager subsistence.
  • *
  • (theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis.
  • Synonyms

    * sustenance * (theology) hypostasis