subsistenceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin subsistentia (“substance, reality, in Medieval Latin also stability”), from Latin subsistens, present participle of subsistere (“to continue, subsist”). See subsist.

発音

• IPA^(key): /səbˈsɪstəns/

名詞

subsistence (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 subsistences)

1. Real being; existence.
   • 1686, Edward Stillingfleet, the Doctrines and Practices of the Church of Rome

     the human nature loseth its proper subsistence , and is assumed into the subsistence of the divine nature

2. The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
3. Inherency.

   the subsistence of qualities in bodies

4. Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
   • 1788, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, Dawson, Federalist 79, page 548:

     In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

   • 1716 February 3, Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 10. Monday, January 23. [1716.] [Julian calendar]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, OCLC 1056445272:

     His viceroy could only propose to himself a comfortable subsistence out of the plunder of his province.

5. (theology) Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

同意語

• (real being): See also Thesaurus:existence
• (something required to stay alive): sustenance
• (theology): hypostasis

派生語

• consubsistence
• subsistence economy
• subsistence farming
• subsistential

関連する語

• subsist
• subsistent