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The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
In finance, survivorship bias is the tendency for failed companies to be excluded from performance studies because they no longer exist. It often causes the results of studies to skew higher because only companies that were successful enough to survive until the end of the period are included.
Obligate hibernation, a state of inactivity in which some organisms survive conditions of insufficiently available resources. Obligate intracellular parasite, a parasitic microorganism that cannot reproduce without entering a suitable host cell; Obligate parasite, a parasite that cannot reproduce without exploiting a suitable host
Animals in a social group (of kin) often work cooperatively in order to survive, but when one member perceives itself as a burden for an extended period of time, it may commit self-destructive behavior. [7] This allows its relatives to have a better chance at survival, and if enough close relatives survive, then its genes get indirectly passed ...
Survival analysis is a branch of statistics for analyzing the expected duration of time until one event occurs, such as death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems.
Survivalism is a social movement of individuals or groups (called survivalists, doomsday preppers or preppers [1] [2]) who proactively prepare for emergencies, such as natural disasters, and other disasters causing disruption to social order (that is, civil disorder) caused by political or economic crises.
Transgenerational trauma is the psychological and physiological effects that the trauma experienced by people has on subsequent generations in that group. The primary mode of transmission is the shared family environment of the infant causing psychological, behavioral and social changes in the individual.
The Old English synonyms are now mostly either extinct or considered crude or vulgar, such as arse/ass. Some words were forgotten while other near- synonyms in Old English replaced them ('limb' remains in common use, but lið remains only dialectally as lith ).