Definitions
- Describing something that provides support or sustenance to something else. - Referring to something that helps maintain or preserve something else. - Talking about something that is essential for the survival or well-being of something else.
- Referring to something that maintains or supports something else. - Describing something that keeps something else going or continuing. - Talking about something that provides the necessary resources or energy to sustain something else.
List of Similarities
- 1Both words relate to providing support or maintenance to something else.
- 2Both words are used to describe something that helps keep something else going.
- 3Both words can be used to refer to something that is essential for the survival or well-being of something else.
What is the difference?
- 1Focus: Sustentive emphasizes the idea of support or sustenance, while sustaining focuses on the idea of keeping something going or continuing.
- 2Usage: Sustentive is less commonly used than sustaining and is often used in more formal contexts.
- 3Connotation: Sustentive has a more positive connotation, suggesting something that is helpful or beneficial, while sustaining can have a neutral or negative connotation, suggesting something that is necessary but not necessarily desirable.
- 4Scope: Sustentive is often used to describe a specific element or factor that contributes to the sustenance or support of something else, while sustaining can be used to describe a broader range of actions or processes that help keep something going.
Remember this!
While both sustentive and sustaining relate to providing support or maintenance to something else, they differ in their part of speech, focus, usage, connotation, and scope. Sustentive is an adjective that emphasizes the idea of support or sustenance and is often used in more formal contexts. Sustaining, on the other hand, can be an adjective or a verb and focuses on the idea of keeping something going or continuing. It has a broader scope and can have a neutral or negative connotation.
