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lifemanship

[lahyf-muh n-ship]
noun
  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.
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Origin of lifemanship

1945–50; life + -manship; popularized, especially in sense of def. 2, by the book Some Notes on Lifemanship (1950) by British author Stephen Potter (1900–69)
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