subsistence

About 5.80 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Real being; existence.
2. noun The act of maintaining oneself at a minimum level.
3. noun Inherency.

   the subsistence of qualities in bodies

4. noun Something (food, water, money, etc.) that is required to stay alive.
5. noun Embodiment or personification or hypostasis of an underlying principle or quality.

Similar words

subsist survival stay mainstay abode persistence sustain support sustenance lived

Often followed by

and of level agriculture economy farming for in to

Word family

subsistences subsistent