lifemanship

lifemanship
/luyf"meuhn ship'/, n.
1. the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
2. the skill or practice of conveying to others a real or apparent sense of one's superiority.
[1945-50; LIFE + -MANSHIP; popularized, esp. in sense of def. 2, by the book Some Notes on Lifemanship (1950) by British author Stephen Potter (1900-69)]

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