英语词汇sustainability的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	sustainability
词源	sustainability n. 1907, in reference to a legal objection, from sustainable + -ity. General sense (in economics, agriculture, ecology) by 1972. Sustainability is defined as a requirement of our generation to manage the resource base such that the average quality of life that we ensure ourselves can potentially be shared by all future generations. ... Development is sustainable if it involves a non-decreasing average quality of life. [Geir B. Asheim, "Sustainability," The World Bank, 1994] Entries linking to sustainability sustainable adj. 1610s, "bearable," a sense now obsolete, from sustain + -able. Attested from 1845 in the sense "defensible, capable of being upheld;" by 1965 with the meaning "capable of being continued at a certain level;" sustainable growth also is recorded from 1965. Related: Sustainably. -ity word-forming element making abstract nouns from adjectives and meaning "condition or quality of being ______," from Middle English -ite, from Old French -ete (Modern French -ité) and directly from Latin -itatem (nominative -itas), suffix denoting state or condition, composed of -i- (from the stem or else a connective) + the common abstract suffix -tas (see -ty (2)). Roughly, the word in -ity usually means the quality of being what the adjective describes, or concretely an instance of the quality, or collectively all the instances; & the word in -ism means the disposition, or collectively all those who feel it. [Fowler] updated on September 25, 2018
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sustainability n.

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