survival

noun4

1. •
   the fact that someone or something lives on and does not die or disappear

   • 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.
3. •
   The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.

   • […] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […] — 2000
4. •
   A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.

   • Another survival of marriage by capture is discovered among the Ceylonese, where it is common at royal marriages for the king and queen to throw perfumed balls and squirt scented water at each other. — 1894