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subsistent

[suhb-sis-tuhnt]

adjective

subsisting, existing, or continuing in existence.

inherent: subsistent qualities of character.

noun

Philosophy. something that exists necessarily as opposed to contingent existence in space and time.

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Origin:
1520–30; < Latin subsistent- (stem of subsistēns), present participle of subsistere to remain; see subsist, -ent

Related forms

non·sub·sist·ent, adjective

pre·sub·sist·ent, adjective

self-sub·sist·ent, adjective

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subsist (səbˈsɪst)

—vb
1.	(often foll by on) to be sustained; manage to live: to subsist on milk
2.	to continue in existence
3.	(foll by in) to lie or reside by virtue (of); consist
4.	philosophy
	a. to exist as a concept or relation rather than a fact
	b. to be conceivable
5.	obsolete (tr) to provide with support

[C16: from Latin subsistere to stand firm, from sub- up + sistere to make a stand]

sub'sistent

—*adj*

sub'sister

—n

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"It follows that man has his actual substantive life in the state, in learning, and so forth, as well as in labor and struggle with the external world and with himself so that it is only out of his diremption that he fights his way to self-subsistent unity with himself. In the family he has a tranquil intuition of this unity, and there he lives a subjective ethical life on the plane of feeling. Woman, on the other hand, has her substantive destiny in the family, and to be imbued with family piety is her ethical frame of mind."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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