survivorship

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noun

The state of being a survivor.

Less commonScrabble 23

Meanings

nounsurvivorship (usually uncountable, plural survivorships)

plural survivorships

  1. uncountableusuallyThe state of being a survivor.

    We therefore seek a method for response-function normalization method which involves manipulating empirical curves that result from unconstrainted empirical fits of the corrected survivorship data.

    2015 July 10, “Data-Driven Method to Estimate Nonlinear Chemical Equivalence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  2. uncountableusuallybiologyThe number or percentage of young that survive to adulthood.
  3. uncountableusuallylawA right whereby a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. It is one of the elements of a joint tenancy.

Origin

  1. Englishsurvivor
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. Englishsurvivorship

From survivor + -ship.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “survivorship,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/survivorship.

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