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survival Definition

sur·vival (sər vī′vəl)

noun

  1. the act, state, or fact of surviving
  2. someone or something that survives, esp. an ancient belief, custom, usage, etc.

survival Synonyms

survival

n.

  1. Continuation

    endurance, durability, continuance; see continuation 1.

  2. Something that survives

    remainder, remnant, relic, vestige; see relic 1.

survival Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • prolong: Among the majority of patients with advanced stage disease so treated, immune response augmentation appears to prolong survival.
  • threaten: By buying these items you may be threatening the survival of the local wildlife.
  • ensure: The aim must be to achieve a sound structural condition to ensure long term survival.
  • endanger: For example, we cannot afford to take decisions on chemical safety which would endanger the survival of the chemical industry in Europe.

Adjective modifier

  • median: The median survival for patients with myeloma is two years.
  • progression-free: They also had a greater likelihood of progression-free survival and a higher five-year survival rate ( 36 % vs. 23 % ).
  • disease-free: Nineteen patients had a mean and median disease-free survival of 48 and 36 months, respectively.
  • 5-year: Stage I disease has a 5-year survival of 90 % .
  • event-free: Resource utilization, length of aplasia, overall ( OS ) and event-free survival ( EFS ) were assessed for 63 patients.
  • long-term: By joining the Trust's Supporters ' Group you will be helping to ensure its long-term survival.

Modifies a noun

  • instinct: It develops an immune reaction to its own survival instinct.
  • horror: This is survival horror in it's purest form.
  • rate: The survival rate from both camps was three percent.
  • kit: The ICT Advice website has an OfSTED survival kit of suggestions made by teachers - all useful stuff!
  • probability: For patients with parenchymal liver disease, increasing levels of the International Normalized Ratio ( INR ) and urea indicated decreasing survival probabilities.
  • trait: Instead of physical survival traits, we're developing cultural ones instead.

Noun used with modifier

  • graft: Structural analogs of LFM developed for use in organ transplantation are effective in prolonging graft survival in different animal model systems ( 15 ).
  • jungle: Toby and Sarena went directly to the capital of the Amazon, Manaus, and from there spent for days learning jungle survival tips.

Preposition: after

  • resection: Previous studies have demonstrated improved survival after complete resection of pulmonary and hollow viscus gastrointestinal metastases.

Preposition: of

  • species: Hunting people have the biggest vested interest in the survival of the species.
survival Quotes

While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for theindividual, it isbestfor therace, becauseit insures thesurvival ofthefittest ineverydepartment. Weaccept and welcome, therefore, as conditions towhichwe must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.

—Carnegie, Andrew

  All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.

—Paley, Grace ne¤  e  Goodside

My draft-dodging father proved that in the struggle for survival the fittest are most likely to get killed off.

—Roth, Guenther

Genet had been right at least about one thing. Blacks should be used to play whites. For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices and even their odors.Often our survival had depended on the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson

It cannot but happen†that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces† This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

—Spencer, Herbert

The lawofthesurvival ofthefittest wasnot made by man and cannot be abrogated by man.We can only by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.

—Sumner,William Graham

Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinianprinciple ofthesurvival ofthevulgarest.

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

We are survival machinesörobot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

—Dawkins, Richard