What is another word for subsists?

Pronunciation: [sʌbsˈɪsts] (IPA)

The word "subsists" means to exist or to survive. Here are some synonyms for the word, including endure, persist, maintain, continue, stay, abide, last, live on, and survive. Each of these words implies a state of being that endures despite adversity. For example, a plant that subsists in an arid desert climate is enduring harsh conditions. A person who persists through hardship is continuing to live despite the challenges they face. When a relationship, business, or tradition maintains over time, it means that it endures and thrives. Thus, "subsists" has many powerful and evocative synonyms that convey strength, resilience, and perseverance.

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Usage examples for Subsists

The boats are nearly alike, constructed to fit the locks, carry about twenty-five tons, and are each drawn by something like the skeleton of a horse, covered with skin: whether he subsists upon the scent of the water, is a doubt; but whether his life is a scene of affliction, is not; for the unfeeling driver has no employment but to whip him from one end of the canal to the other.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
"None but a healthy and cheerful egotist could tolerate a life which subsists only for itself.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
It is truly delightful to witness the warm affection that subsists between relatives in France, and the dutiful and respectful attention paid by children to their parents.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner

Famous quotes with Subsists

  • There is no one subsists by himself alone.
    Owen Feltham
  • The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
    William Godwin
  • Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom.
    Plato
  • The peace that passeth understanding is that which comes when the pain is not relieved, which subsists in the midst of the painful situation, suffusing it, which springs out of the pain itself, which shimmers on the crest of the wave of pain, which is the spear of frustration transfigured into the shaft of light. It is upon those we love that we must anchor ourselves spiritually in the last moments. The sense of interconnectedness with them stands out vividly by way of contrast at the very moment when our mortal connection with them is about to be dissolved. And the intertwining of our life with theirs, the living in the life that is in them, is but a part of our living in the infinite manifold of the spiritual life. The thought of this, as apprehended, not in terms of knowledge, but in immediate experience, begets the peace that passeth understanding. And it is upon the bosom of that peace that we can pass safely out of the realm of time and space.
    Felix Adler
  • According to one mode... nature is thus denominated, viz. the first subject matter to every thing which contains in itself the principle of motion and mutation. But after another mode it is denominated form, which subsists according to definition: for as art is called that which subsists according to art, and that which is artificial; so likewise nature is both called that which is according to nature, and that which is natural. ...that which is composed from these is not nature, but consists from nature; as, for instance, man. And this is nature in a greater degree than matter: for every thing is then said to be, when it is form in energy... , rather than when it is incapacity.
    Aristotle

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