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Nourishment vs Subsistence - What's the difference?

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Nourishment is a related term of subsistence.


As nouns the difference between nourishment and subsistence

is that nourishment is the act of nourishing or the state of being nourished while subsistence is real being; existence.

nourishment

English

Noun

  • the act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
  • something that nourishes; food

    • 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.
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  • (theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity; hypostasis.

    • Synonyms

    * sustenance * (theology) hypostasis

    Related terms

    * subsist * subsistent

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