Synonyms for survival
sərˈvaɪ vəlsur·vival

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.2 / 6 votes

1. survival, endurancenoun

   a state of surviving; remaining alive

   Synonyms:
   selection, survival of the fittest, natural selection, endurance

2. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selectionnoun

   a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

   Synonyms:
   selection, pick, endurance, choice, extract, excerpt, excerption, survival of the fittest, option, natural selection

3. survivalnoun

   something that survives

   Synonyms:
   selection, survival of the fittest, natural selection, endurance

Matched Categories

1. • Continuance
   • Life
   • Natural Process

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.3 / 4 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "survival":

   survivorship, survivability, survive, life-saving, subsistence, existence, survivor, livelihood, life-support, residual, lifeline, self-preservation, life-sustaining, viability

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1. Scott Walker:

   The Islamic Republic of Iran -- the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism -- is on the march throughout the Middle East, president Obama’s deal … risks provoking a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world, one that threatens the survival of our closest regional ally Israel and our key Arab partners.

2. Jill Beck:

   Curability is the chance that a child will be cured of their cancer with the current treatment, prognosis is very similar to curability, although looks at the chance of survival as opposed to cure. Some children may be cured of their cancer, but still not survive due to complications of the therapy.

3. Ashlee Marie Preston:

   I was discriminated against in my job, I was fired, I became homeless, I had to engage in survival sex work. I became a drug addict because I didn't know how to navigate survival on the streets.

4. Sulemanu Koney:

   It is...a major constraint and the net effect is that your costs go up and your margins are squeezed, for companies which are already marginal, it'll mean they are just being pushed out of business. Survival becomes the name of the game.

5. Shawn Baker:

   So both for ensuring kids' survival and then ensuring their future health and development, it's a huge intervention, i always characterize it that this is not some second-rate intervention we're trying to push on developed worlds, but this is really state of the art, the gold standard intervention that's relevant anywhere in the world.