Subsist vs Viable - What's the difference?
subsist | viable |
To survive on a minimum of resources.
* Atterbury
(mostly, philosophy) To have ontological reality; to exist.
* Alexander Pope
To continue; to retain a certain state.
* Milton
Able to live on its own (as for a newborn.)
Able to be done, possible.
In (biology), able to live and develop.
As a verb subsist
is to survive on a minimum of resources.As an adjective viable is
able to live on its own (as for a newborn).subsist
English
Verb
(en verb)- to subsist on other men's charity
- And makes what happiness we justly call, / Subsist not in the good of one, but all.
- Firm we subsist , yet possible to swerve.