Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sustention

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sus-ten-tion
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

First attested in 1868: a nominalisation of sustain, by analogy with detain → detention, retain → retention, etc., coined for contradistinction with sustentation.

Usage

Inflected Forms

sustentions (plural)

Questions

What does sustention mean?: sustentation
Where does sustention come from?: First attested in 1868: a nominalisation of sustain, by analogy with detain → detention, retain → retention, etc., coined for contradistinction with sustentation.

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