self-sustaining

[self-suh-stey-ning, self-]

adjective

1. self-supporting.

Other Word Forms

• self-sustained adjective
• self-sustainingly adverb
• self-sustainment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-sustaining¹

First recorded in 1835–45

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