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Surviving vs Enduring - What's the difference?

surviving | enduring |

As verbs the difference between surviving and enduring

is that surviving is while enduring is .

As an adjective enduring is

long-lasting.

As a noun enduring is

endurance.

surviving

English

Verb

(head)

    • enduring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Long-lasting.
    • an enduring belief in democracy

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endurance
  • * 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
    • It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise

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