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. Katarzyna Sokl:

   Hydrogenase is an enzyme present in algae that is capable of reducing protons into hydrogen, during evolution, this process has been deactivated because it wasn’t necessary for survival but we successfully managed to bypass the inactivity to achieve the reaction we wanted — splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.

2. Daniel Sandweiss:

   Humans have such a large and sometimes unexpected influence on economies and ecosystems, the squash we have today are remaining representatives of this genus of plant which otherwise would have been in trouble for survival because of the changing landscape.

3. Campaigner Cherry Muddle:

   In Australia, to do our share, we really need to slash our emissions reductions by 75 % by 2030 and that is to hold global warming to less than 1.5 degrees which is the critical threshold for the survival of coral reef as we know it, we can create jobs, we can protect the reef, if we only embrace clean energy technology and stop all new coal and gas developments.

4. Vermont Fish:

   Moose densities greater than one per square mile support high numbers of winter ticks which negatively impact moose health and survival.

5. Jason Brodsky:

   The regimes priority remains its own survival and financing its proxies and partners over its people. Even during this time of economic turmoil, according to the U.S. State Department, Irans supreme leader just last month increased funding for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps 33 percent higher than President Rouhanis original request and more than doubled the funding of the Basij. So, the risk of diversion of funds looms large.