Antonyms for sustenance
ˈsʌs tə nənssus·te·nance

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1. sustenance

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, diet, fare, feed, fodder, food, forage, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, viands, victuals

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1. sustenance

   Antonyms:
   starvation, inanition, nonsubsistance, innutrition, exhaustion

   Synonyms:
   support, food, aliment, living, subsistance, livelihood, alimony, provision, nourishment, nutriment, nurture, sustentation, nutrition, pabulum, maintenance

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1. nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victualsnoun

   a source of materials to nourish the body

   Synonyms:
   sustentation, sustainment, victual, edible, nutrition, nutriment, pabulum, keep, viands, alimentation, upkeep, victuals, bread and butter, provender, feeding, support, eatable, aliment, provisions, commissariat, living, maintenance, nourishment, livelihood, comestible

2. support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenancenoun

   the financial means whereby one lives

   "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"

   Synonyms:
   support, backup, supporting, reinforcement, sustainment, backing, funding, nutrition, nutriment, financial support, keep, accompaniment, alimentation, reenforcement, victuals, life, bread and butter, hold, dungeon, musical accompaniment, maintenance, aliment, animation, donjon, sustentation, living, upkeep, financial backing, documentation, nourishment, livelihood, aliveness

3. sustenance, sustentation, sustainment, maintenance, upkeepnoun

   the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence

   "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment"

   Synonyms:
   sustentation, sustainment, care, nutrition, nutriment, keep, alimentation, upkeep, victuals, bread and butter, support, aliment, criminal maintenance, living, alimony, maintenance, nourishment, livelihood

How to use sustenance in a sentence?

1. Bryant McGill:

   Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

2. Vijaya Raghavan:

   If we analyze anemia to be a triggering condition for perinatal depression and try to talk to the health department about the problems, they will say it is a nutrition problem and lead us to them. The nutrition department will say they have provided all nutritional sustenance and perhaps it is not reaching the women due to lack of education and lead us to the education department and that just goes on.

3. Reinhold Niebuhr:

   Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

4. Rooma Mehra:

   We were very very lucky children! I pray that our future generations have as much fun, in whatever way! We should at least try to leave enough water, greenery, forests .. simple means of human sustenance .. if for no other reason but to repay Nature's debt on all of us..who enjoyed nature's charity to the hilt selfishly..when it was meant for ALL human beings including children of the future ..

5. Alan Stewart Paton:

   Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

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