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English

Etymology

From Latin resili? (“to spring back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.z?l.?.?ns/

Noun

resilience (countable and uncountable, plural resiliences)

1. (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
2. (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
3. The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium due to the consequences of a crisis or failure caused by any type of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).

Related terms

• resile
• resilient
• result

Translations

Further reading

• resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Middle English resilient, from Old French resilient, from Latin resili?ns, present active participle of resili? (“I leap or spring back”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

resilient (comparative more resilient, superlative most resilient)

1. (of objects or substances) Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic.
   1. (materials science) Having the ability to absorb energy when deformed.
2. (of systems, organisms or people) Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions.
   • 1994, Michael Grumley, The Last Diary:

     He’s resilient, and strong, but sometimes tonight, here, the weight of what he’s saying makes him stop, pause as if lost.

   1. (psychology, neuroscience) Having the ability to recover from mental illness, trauma, etc.; having resilience.

Synonyms

• bendable
• flexible
• strong

Antonyms

• brittle
• fragile

Derived terms

• resilience

Related terms

• resile
• resilience
• result

Translations

Latin

Verb

resilient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of resili?