What does survival mean?
Survival means The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life..
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/səˈvaɪ.vəl/ · noun
The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life..
His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.
persecution survival plan
His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness.
When I am not playing pinball or working at my survival job, I am usually writing.
[…] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […]
"Before you know it, you find yourself flirting around the relegation places and the season becomes a battle for survival."
Thus, if some old rhyme or saying has in one place a solemn import in philosophy or religion, while elsewhere it lies at the level of the nursery, there is some ground for treating the serious version as the more original, and the playful one as its mere lingering survival.
Another survival of marriage by capture is discovered among the Ceylonese, where it is common at royal marriages for the king and queen to throw perfumed balls and squirt scented water at each other.
Use survival when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Survival means The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life..
Common synonyms include endurance, selection, natural selection, survival of the fittest.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.
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