subsistence

Noun
  1. Minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting (synset 113387710)
    "social security provided only a bare subsistence"
    is a type of: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenance - the financial means whereby one lives
  2. A means of surviving (synset 113985696)
    "farming is a hard means of subsistence"
    is a type of: endurance, survival - a state of surviving; remaining alive
  3. The state of existing in reality;
    Having substance (synset 113980779)
    is a type of: being, beingness, existence, face of the earth - the state or fact of existing

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