1. (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive

• endurance

2. (noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

• natural selection
• selection
• survival of the fittest

1. (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive

• aliveness
• animation
• life
• living

2. (noun) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

• action
• activity
• natural action
• natural process

3. (noun) something that survives

• continuance
• continuation

1. (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive

• subsistence

2. (noun) something that survives

• custom
• usage
• usance
• hangover
• holdover

1. (noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive

• come through
• make it
• pull round
• pull through
• survive
• endure
• endure
• go
• go
• hold out
• hold out
• hold up
• hold up
• last
• last
• live
• live
• live on
• live on
• survive
• survive
• exist
• live
• subsist
• survive