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Survive vs Survivability - What's the difference?

survive | survivability |

As a verb survive

is of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.

As a noun survivability is

(uncountable) the condition of being survivable.

survive

English

Verb

(surviv)
  • Of a person, to continue to live; to remain alive.
  • Of an object or concept, to continue to exist.
  • To live longer than; to outlive.
  • His children survived''' him; he was '''survived by his children.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll assure her of / Her widowhood, be it that she survive me, / In all my lands and leases whatsoever.
  • * 1817 , (Walter Scott), Rob Roy , X:
  • ‘I am afraid, as will happen in other cases, the treaty of alliance has survived the amicable dispositions in which it had its origin.’
  • To live past a life-threatening event.
  • He did not survive the accident.
  • (sports) Of a team, to avoid relegation or demotion to a lower division or league.
  • Synonyms

    * (l) * (live longer than) outlive

    Antonyms

    * (live longer than) predecease

    Anagrams

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    survivability

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The condition of being survivable
  • (countable) A measure of the extent to which something is survivable