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🔹 Word: Subsitude
🔸 Part of Speech: Noun
🔸 Definition:
The state or condition of a person who is shaped, limited, or controlled by their external circumstances — living reactively rather than by their own autonomous will.
In short: When life happens to you, not by you.
🔸 Example Sentences:
• “After years stuck in the same job and town, I realized I wasn’t living — I was just surviving in subsitude.”
• “Society praises freedom, but most of us live quietly in subsitude, ruled by forces we never chose.”
• “He mistook comfort for freedom, not realizing he had settled into subsitude.”
🔸 Origin:
Coined in 2025. Formed from sub- (under) and -tude (a state or condition), following the structure of words like attitude and servitude. FJC
🔸 Tags:
existentialism, philosophy, self-awareness, agency, determinism, oppression, emotional states, coined words
🔸 Part of Speech: Noun
🔸 Definition:
The state or condition of a person who is shaped, limited, or controlled by their external circumstances — living reactively rather than by their own autonomous will.
In short: When life happens to you, not by you.
🔸 Example Sentences:
• “After years stuck in the same job and town, I realized I wasn’t living — I was just surviving in subsitude.”
• “Society praises freedom, but most of us live quietly in subsitude, ruled by forces we never chose.”
• “He mistook comfort for freedom, not realizing he had settled into subsitude.”
🔸 Origin:
Coined in 2025. Formed from sub- (under) and -tude (a state or condition), following the structure of words like attitude and servitude. FJC
🔸 Tags:
existentialism, philosophy, self-awareness, agency, determinism, oppression, emotional states, coined words
“After years stuck in the same job and town,I realized I wasn't living — I was just surviving in Subsitude.”
by Slo Car September 13, 2025
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