- subsistence - minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
--1 is a kind of support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance
- subsistence - a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
--2 is a kind of survival, endurance
Derived form: verb subsist1 - subsistence - the state of existing in reality; having substance
--3 is a kind of being, beingness, existence
- subsistence - a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence"