Synonyms:
survival, endurance
Meaning: a state of surviving; remaining alive
Usage examples
I suppose you might call it an inbred survival trait."
This is a condition known to have existed--here's just a survival.
But they will drop the bombs in order to assure their own survival."
Did these different methods under the special circumstances result in the survival of the fittest?
The Story of the Cross, an attempt to versify the Gospel narratives, is a strange survival of the Tate and Brady school of poetry.
The full graduates of these schools are only "the survival of the fittest." Others take a secondary degree and can act as assistants or retire from the list.