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Sufficiency vs Subsistence - What's the difference?

sufficiency | subsistence |

As nouns the difference between sufficiency and subsistence

is that sufficiency is quality or condition of being sufficient while subsistence is real being; existence.

sufficiency

English

Alternative forms

* sufficiencie (obsolete)

Noun

(sufficiencies)
  • Quality or condition of being sufficient.
  • An adequate amount.

    • Synonyms

    * enoughness * sufficience

    Antonyms

    * insufficiency * unsufficiency (obs.)

    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

    Related terms

    * subsist * subsistent

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