maintenance vs living

living vs maintenance

maintenance and living both are nouns.

maintenance is not an adjective while living is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
maintenance	Yes	No	No	No
living	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, living is a hypernym of maintenance; that is, living is a word with a broader meaning than maintenance:

maintenance: means of maintenance of a family or group
living: the financial means whereby one lives

Other hypernyms of maintenance include bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance.

maintenance (noun)	living (noun)
activity involved in maintaining something in good working order	the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence	people who are still living
the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community	the financial means whereby one lives
means of maintenance of a family or group	the condition of living or the state of being alive
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

maintenance (adjective)	living (adjective)
	pertaining to living persons
	(informal) absolute
	still in existence
	(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
	true to life; lifelike
	still in active use

Difference between maintenance and living

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