subsistence

subsistance

Fait de rester en vie avec seulement le strict nécessaire.

En anglais simple : Keeping yourself alive with only the basic things you need.

• They depend on subsistence farming.
• Her wages barely allow subsistence.
• Many families lived at subsistence level during the drought.

Synonymes : survival

Expressions courantes : subsistence farming, subsistence level, bare subsistence

subsistance, moyens de subsistance

Nourriture, argent et autres ressources indispensables pour vivre.

En anglais simple : Food, money, and other basic things needed to stay alive.

• The river provided their subsistence.
• Workers received a small allowance for subsistence.
• Without the harvest, the village had no means of subsistence.

Synonymes : sustenance, livelihood

Expressions courantes : means of subsistence, provide subsistence, daily subsistence

existence

Le fait que quelque chose existe réellement.

En anglais simple : The fact that something really exists.

• The philosopher questioned the subsistence of matter.
• They debated whether ideas have independent subsistence.
• Her argument assumes the real subsistence of these objects.

Synonymes : existence, being

Contraires : nonexistence

Expressions courantes : real subsistence, independent subsistence

inhérence

Fait qu’une qualité existe en tant que partie de quelque chose d’autre.

En anglais simple : The way a quality exists as part of something else.

• The text discusses the subsistence of qualities in matter.
• He questioned the subsistence of properties in physical objects.
• Their theory explains subsistence in terms of a quality and its bearer.

Synonymes : inherence

Expressions courantes : subsistence of qualities, subsistence in something