subsistence

The act or state of subsisting.

A means of subsisting, especially means barely sufficient to maintain life.

Something that has real or substantial existence.

Hypostasis.

Real being; actual existence.

Continuance; continued existence.

That which exists or has real being.

The act or process of furnishing support to animal life, or that which is furnished; means of support; support; livelihood.

The state of being subsistent; inherence in something else: as. the subsistence of qualities in bodies.

Synonyms Sustenance, etc. See living.