survival
/sɚˈvaɪvəl/ 🇬🇧
etymology
From survive + -al
noun
noun: survival; plural noun: suvivals
1 . WIKTIONARY
1. The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
→ "His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die."
2. Of, relating to or aiding survival.
→ "His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness."
2 . OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
1. The state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances.
2. An object or practice that has continued to exist from an earlier time.
3 . WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY
1. The act or fact of living or continuing longer than another person or thing.
2. The continuation of life or existence.
→ "Problems of survival in arctic conditions"
survivalism
/sɚˈvaɪ vəlɪzəm/ 🇬🇧
etymology
From survival + -ism
noun
noun: survivalism; plural noun: suvivalisms
1 . HISTORICAL THESAURUS
1. A theory of survival (see SURVIVAL³).
2. A policy of trying to ensure one's own survival or that of one's social or national group.
→ 1953"The minstrels sang of heroes of the resistance, and their original work is therefore banned as tainted with survivalism"
2 . WIKTIONARY
 . A belief, expressed by survivalists, in being prepared to survive disasters and cataclysms
   including the collapse of civilization.
3 . OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
1. The practising of outdoor survival skills as a sport or hobby.
→ "From an early age, he was obsessed with survivalism"
2. A policy of trying to ensure one's own survival or that of one's social or national group.
→ "In a time when social change is off the agenda, therapy culture unites conservatism and
   radicalism under an umbrella of survivalism."
4 . WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY
1. An attitude, policy, or practice based on the primacy of survival as a value.
→ "Athleisure, gorpcore, workwear, and streetwear are all obvious antecedents, what’s new is the sense of survivalism."
→ "As the disaster preparedness phenomenon spreads from the rich and eccentric into mainstream America, survivalism is becoming big business."
survivalist
/sɚˈvaɪ vəlɪst/ 🇬🇧
etymology
From survival + -ist
noun
noun: survivalist; plural noun: suvivalists
adjective
survivalist gear; survivalist mindset
1 . HISTORICAL THESAURUS
1. One who holds a theory of survival.
→ 1882"When you give a man a lower seat at table, the survivalist sees in the act a desire to have the force of gravity on your side."
→ 1968"The controversy between the diffusionists, who believed culture contacts to be the main explanation of peasant beliefs and customs, and the survivalists, who attributed them to the processes of folk memory and to oral tradition handed down through the ages."
2. One who succeeds in surviving; one who makes a policy of aiming to survive.
2 . WIKTIONARY
 . A person who believes in being prepared to survive and is actively preparing for possible future emergencies and disruptions in local, regional, national, or international social or political order.
synonyms
prepper; disasterist
3 . OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
1. A person who practises outdoor survival skills as a sport or hobby.
→ "a survivalist's handbook".
2. A person who tries to ensure their own survival or that of their social or national group.
→ "a paranoid survivalist bracing for Armageddon".
4 . WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY
1. A person who advocates or practices survivalism.
2. One who has prepared to survive in the anarchy of an anticipated breakdown of society.
→ "The book tells the unforgettable true story of Westover’s life growing up in rural Idaho as a daughter of survivalists, who prepared for the end of the world and shunned official entities like the government, hospitals, and schools."
Use of "survivalism" over time