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survival

survival

545 3.0
To keep living in difficult conditions
  • noun
  • /sərˈvaɪvəl/
: supervivencia
  • In the harsh wilderness, mastering skills like finding food and shelter is vital for survival.
  • survival rate
  • chance of survival
  • struggle for survival

The thing is, can you overcome this survival instinct of comfort?

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Examples

  • None of those steps will be easy, but our survival depends on us taking them.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Creativity in this world is key to survival.

  • For the human being, the basic means of survival is reason.

  • Do you worry about the survival of this process?

  • If we do not have that, then our own survival is is in danger.

  • Walking Far has been telling us all about survival in the desert.

  • If diagnosed early, your chances of survival are much, much greater.

  • Ukraine is now fighting a war of survival against a very brutal, dangerous, and powerful enemy.

    Academic text (2015)
  • And how we can all reimagine survival as its own kind of creative act.

  • But they would have needed some well-developed survival skills to thrive and avoid hypothermia.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

viability
vssurvival
  • Specialized
8 6.6

Whether a living thing can grow and survive

focuses on the fact of continuing to exist under difficult conditions rather than potential
survivorship
vssurvival
1 6.0

Living on after a serious illness or hard time

is the general state of continuing to live despite difficult conditions
continuancy
vssurvival
1 8.9

The fact of lasting without stopping

stresses lasting despite hardship rather than simple uninterrupted duration
survivance
vssurvival
9.2

Continued living after a hard time

is the neutral term for continuing to live or exist despite difficulty

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

The end of a living thing's life

135 4.4

The dying out of a species so it no longer exists

Compounds

19 5.1

Only animals and plants best suited to their environment survive and reproduce

How Likely

certainty
  • Literature
198 3.4
probability
212 3.6
survival
545 3.0
impossibility
34 5.3

Surface Forms

survival singular
survivals plural

Morphology

survival = survive (transparent) = survive + al

Standard noun formation from the verb 'survive' indicating the state or fact of continuing to live; learners who know 'survive' can readily infer this meaning.

Etymology

Survival comes from the Latin parts super- ('over') and vivere ('to live'), the same root you see in revive. So survival means 'living on' after danger or hard times.