Living vs Subsistence - What's the difference?
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Having life.
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In use or existing.
Of everyday life.
True to life.
(uncountable) The state of being alive.
Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
A style of life.
(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income. The holder of the position receives its revenue for the performance of stipulated duties.
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.
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(theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis.
Living is a related term of subsistence.
As nouns the difference between living and subsistence
is that living is (uncountable) the state of being alive while subsistence is real being; existence.As a verb living
is .As an adjective living
is having life.living
English
(wikipedia living)Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
- Hunanese is a living language.
- These living conditions are deplorable.
- This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
- He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
Antonyms
* dead * nonlivingDerived terms
* living death * living end * livingly * living room * living thing * living willNoun
- What do you do for a living ?
- plain living