/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) ]