self-sustainmentn.
/ˌsɛlfsəˈsteɪnm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌsɛlfsəˈsteɪnm(ə)nt/ 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
1779 Admin. Dissected 301 The bands of social affection are broken; and scarcely any principle but self-sustainment, operates in the human breast.
1840 G. Darley in Wks. of Beaumont & Fletcher I. Introd. p. xxviii Where is the single character delineated by our authors with the force,..and uniform self-sustainment, of any principal portrait by Ben?
1870 J. R. Lowell Rousseau in Among my Bks. 1st Ser. 348 Souls capable of self-sustainment.
1948 N.Y. Times 11 Nov. 34/1 (heading) Only seven countries listed in FAO report as capable of self-sustainment.
1986 New Pittsburgh Courier 17 May 4/6 My idea is to make tenants aware of the programs that are already available so they can begin to develop some form of self-sustainment.
2014 S. Marchetti Black Girls 169 [I wanted] to focus on women who were possibly in the condition of starting to work for their self-sustainment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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