subsistence

subsistencia

Mantenerse con vida contando solo con lo imprescindible.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: survival

Expresiones frecuentes: subsistence farming, subsistence level, bare subsistence

sustento, subsistencia

Alimentos, dinero y otros recursos básicos necesarios para vivir.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: sustenance, livelihood

Expresiones frecuentes: means of subsistence, provide subsistence, daily subsistence

existencia

El hecho de que algo exista realmente.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: existence, being

Antónimos: nonexistence

Expresiones frecuentes: real subsistence, independent subsistence

inherencia

Forma en que una cualidad existe como parte de otra cosa.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: inherence

Expresiones frecuentes: subsistence of qualities, subsistence in something