Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

    Resilienz, Belastbarkeit, Widerstandsfähigkeit

    психологи́ческая усто́йчивостьpsixologíčeskaja ustójčivostʹ, усто́йчивостьustójčivostʹ, запа́с про́чностиzapás próčnosti

    сті́йкістьstíjkistʹ

  2. (countable, uncountable)The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.

    Elastizität, elastisches Verformungsarbeitsaufnahmevermögen

    упру́гостьuprúgostʹ, ги́бкостьgíbkostʹ, эласти́чностьelastíčnostʹ

    the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit

  3. (countable, uncountable)The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium after a crisis, failure or any kind of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).

  4. (countable, uncountable)The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.

Examples

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  1. Never had they seen such resilience.

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  2. Others admire my resilience and strength.

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  3. I learned firsthand the importance of resilience.

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  4. She taught them the importance of resilience.

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  5. Your resilience serves as an inspiration to many.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
ability of a system or company to recover:
Русский
By meaning 3
mental ability:
ability of a system or company to recover:
physical property of material:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
mental ability:
physical property of material:

Forms

plural: resiliences
Singularresilience
Pluralresiliences

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit:resiliency
  • an occurrence of rebounding or springing back:resiliency

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

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