subsistence

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of SUBSISTENCE

the fact of being or of being real <believes in the subsistence of a soul as a separate entity from the body>

Synonyms actuality, corporality, corporeality, reality, subsistence, thingness

Related Words genuineness, realness; activity, animation, life; currency, presence, prevalence

Near Antonyms absence, dearth, lack, want; potentiality, virtuality

Antonyms inexistence, nonbeing, nonexistence, nothingness, unreality

uninterrupted or lasting existence <the subsistence of the patient's infection, even after the use of antibiotics, had the doctors puzzled>

Synonyms abidance, ceaselessness, continuance, continuity, continuousness, durability, duration, endurance, persistence, subsistence

Near Antonyms abridgment (or abridgement), curtailment, cutback, shortening

Antonyms cessation, close, discontinuance, discontinuity, end, ending, expiration, finish, stoppage, surcease, termination

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