self-sustenancen.
/ˌsɛlfˈsʌstᵻnəns/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfˈsəstənəns/ The state or quality of being self-sustaining; the capacity to be self-sustaining; (now) esp. financial self-sufficiency.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > self-sufficiency
sufficiencec1384
suffisancea1450
self-sufficiency1598
autarky1617
self-dependencea1620
self-sufficience1623
self-subsistencea1631
self-support1632
self-fullness1668
self-reliance1668
self-dependency1749
self-sustainment1779
self-sustenance1786
self-sufficingness1811
substantiveness1821
self-sustentationa1832
self-containment1841
self-sufficientness1846
self-containing1850
self-supportedness1862
rugged individualism1898
1786 W. Young Hist. Athens i. i. 7 A sense of self-sustenance, and of self-preservation, united, directed, and urged them on.
1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. v. 35 Though she was..frail looking, there was within her a great power of self-sustenance.
1909 Mother Earth Jan. 391 Anarchism affirms the economy of self-sustenance, the disintegration of the great communities, the use of the earth.
1999 E. Afr. Standard (Nairobi) 28 July 7/2 A change is necessary to lead us to economic recovery, self sustenance and industrialisation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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