Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun subsistence

3 senses of subsistence

Sense 1
subsistence -- (minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting; "social security provided only a bare subsistence")
       => support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance -- (the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood")

Sense 2
subsistence -- (a means of surviving; "farming is a hard means of subsistence")
       => survival, endurance -- (a state of surviving; remaining alive)

Sense 3
subsistence -- (the state of existing in reality; having substance)
       => being, beingness, existence -- (the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries")