self-subsistentadj.
/ˌsɛlfsəbˈsɪst(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfsəbˈsɪst(ə)nt/ Existing independently of any other being or cause; self-existent. In later use also: having means of subsistence without need of external assistance; self-sufficient.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > self-existent
self-being1599
self-subsisting1608
self-essential1610
self-substantial1630
self-subsistent1646
self-existing1647
self-essentiated1653
self-existent1663
self-living1668
self-standing1871
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [adjective] > self-sufficient
suffisanta1340
sufficient for (to) oneself1382
substantive1543
self-suffisant1589
self-sufficient1596
self-sustaining1598
self-contained1605
self-subsisting1608
self-supporting1632
self-dependent1642
self-full1642
self-subsistent1646
self-sufficing1647
self-relying1648
self-depending1669
independent1670
self-sustained1675
unbenefitable1688
self-sufficed1709
self-supported1736
self-containing1826
self-reliant1834
autarkic1883
1646 H. More Democritus Platonissans To Rdr. sig. A2v Any actuall and self-subsistent Being.
1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. i. 26 An immaterial and self-subsistent form.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 250 Those sensible qualities..such as heat, cold, sweetness..are not self-subsistent beings.
1789 T. Taylor Hist. Restoration Platonic Theol. in tr. Proclus Philos. & Math. Comm. II. 244 Either nothing is self-subsistent; or the good itself is such; or things which are the first subsistents from the good.
1827 S. T. Coleridge On Constit. Church & State (1839) 269 (note) The self-subsistent Reason or Logos.
1852 Free Thoughts on Free Trade (LSE Selected Pamphlets) 8 We still term it [sc. wheat] the main staple,..as rendering us a self-subsistent community.
1922 Cent. Mag. June 201/1 No group of nations can be economically self-subsistent without free access to tropical products.
2014 B. V. Foltz Noetics of Nature ii. 42 The idea of a universe that is self-subsistent—standing entirely on its own, fully operational and intelligible, independent from anything outside itself—is both odd and modern.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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