a. rare. [f. SURVIVE + -ABLE.] Capable of surviving. Hence Survivability, capability of surviving.
1879. L. S. Bevington, in 19th Cent., Oct., 597. That mass of conduct-conditions upon which … [we] can … continue to live and to leave a survivable posterity.
18[?]. N.Y. Reports, XCIX. 260 (Cent. Dict.). It must be held that these rules still determine the survivability of actions for tort.
