Associations to the word «Sustentation»

Wiktionary

SUSTENTATION, noun. The act, or the result of sustaining; sustainment.
SUSTENTATION, noun. The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.

Dictionary definition

SUSTENTATION, noun. The act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; "they were in want of sustenance"; "fishing was their main sustainment".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne