survival

survival
    n 1: a state of surviving; remaining alive [syn: {survival},
         {endurance}]
    2: a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms
       best adapted to the environment [syn: {survival}, {survival
       of the fittest}, {natural selection}, {selection}]
    3: something that survives
    

Survival \Sur*viv"al\, n. [From {Survive}.]
   1. A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the
      existence of, another person, thing, or event; an
      outliving.
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   2. (Arhaeol. & Ethnol.) Any habit, usage, or belief,
      remaining from ancient times, the origin of which is often
      unknown, or imperfectly known.
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            The close bearing of the doctrine of survival on the
            study of manners and customs.         --Tylor.
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   {Survival of the fittest}. (Biol.) See {Natural selection},
      under {Natural}.
      [1913 Webster] Survivance
    

91 Moby Thesaurus words for "survival":
      abidingness, afterglow, afterimage, age, ancient manuscript,
      antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, balance, butt, butt end,
      candle ends, cave painting, chaff, constancy, continuance, debris,
      defeat of time, defiance of time, detritus, diuturnity, durability,
      durableness, duration, end, endurance, eolith, fag end, filings,
      fossil, holdover, husks, lastingness, leavings, leftovers,
      long standing, long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity,
      maintenance, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, odds and ends,
      offscourings, orts, paleolith, parings, perdurability, perennation,
      permanence, perpetuity, persistence, petrification,
      petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, plateaulith, rags,
      refuse, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remains, remnant,
      residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruin, ruins, rump,
      sawdust, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, stability, standing,
      steadfastness, straw, stubble, stump, survivance, sweepings, trace,
      vestige, waste