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Subsistence vs Persistence - What's the difference?

subsistence | persistence |

As nouns the difference between subsistence and persistence

is that subsistence is real being; existence while persistence is the property of being persistent.

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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    persistence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The property of being persistent.
    • You've got to admire his persistence . He's asked her out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
  • (computer science) Of data, continuing to exist after the execution of the program.
    • Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence : it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
  • (meteorology) Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

    • Synonyms

    * persistency * See also * See also