Sustenance vs Subsist - What's the difference?
sustenance | subsist |
Something that provides support or nourishment.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 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
As a noun sustenance
is something that provides support or nourishment.As a verb subsist is
to survive on a minimum of resources.sustenance
English
Noun
citation, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
Synonyms
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.
