" sustaining "

 [ "sustainability" ]

1: The ability to achieve, and sustain a male erection.

  * e.g.,  ... At my age, sustainability is not a concern! Achievment is my greatest concern! 

 [ "Sustainal" ]

1: Someone who is extremely picky about all things sustainable. Will call other people on their unsustainable behaviour. Combination of sustainable and anal.

  * e.g.,  ... Mike is so sustainal, he criticized me for throwing my banana peel in the wrong bin. Stop being sustainal, Mike, get a life! 

 [ "sustainability" ]

1: Sustainability is a lens through which to view all issues. The sustainability movement encompasses environmental justice and social justice, because one cannot be obtained without the other. It means living life to the fullest without compromising future generations' ability to do so. It respects the interconectedness of all life and acknowledges the responsibility that each person has to consider the effects that his actions have on other life forms, both living and to be born.

  * e.g.,  ... The sustainability revolution is begining! Watch out you styrofoam using, carbon cycle ignoring, TV worshiping members of American consumer culture. 

 [ "Sustainability" ]

1: The ability to endure a balence of economic, social and environmenal well being now and in the future.

  * e.g.,  ... learned about sustainability in geography class. 

 [ "sustain" ]

1: to hold up, to bear with

  * e.g.,  ... She bearly sustained the bucket with one hand. 

 [ "Sustainability" ]

1: A word that left leaning urban Caucasians coined to feel good about themselves.

  * e.g.,  ... Joe: I like shopping at Whole Foods because they have a strong sense of sustainability. Mike: You want sustainability? Go find a piece of land, work that shit, do your own thing, quit being a pussy, and shut the fuck up! 

 [ "Sustainable" ]

1: Repeatable indefinitely with no negative side effect whatsoever.

  * e.g.,  ... I think this new training schedule could be sustainable 

 [ "Sustainability" ]

1:  A hippy dippy cosmic cupcake term loosely applied to just about everything environment related to sound like you know what the fuck you're talking about.

  * e.g.,  ... I was at the Co-op the other day eating vegan snickerdoodle, when a girl complemented my hemp bracelet. I started talking about how the bracelet and the vegan snickerdoodle were related to sustainability, she was so impressed I ended up giving her...the sustainable d. 

 [ "sustainance" ]

1: That which keeps something in existence. (The similar word "sustenance" usually means food.)

  * e.g.,  ... The large numbers of high income people who were covered by corporate and government health insurance contributed to the sustainance of the outmoded health insurance system. 

 [ "Sustainable" ]

1: putting a warm beer in the fridge every time you take a cold one out

  * e.g.,  ... recycling the beer can is sustainable too