resilience

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
2. (countable, uncountable) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
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.

Opposite of

fragility, brittleness

Synonyms

elasticity

resiliency

flexibility

springiness

spring

rebound

adaptability

flippancy

levity

slightness

weakmindedness

flimsiness

spring back

volatileness

frivolity

lightness

merriment

merrymaking

mettle

mirth

pliability

pliancy

recoil

repercussion

repulsion

sponginess

stretch

stretchability

stretchiness

suppleness

tact

tenaciousnes

tenaciousness

tenacity

tone

toughness

bounciness

repulsive force

elastostatics

humour

resilience of nature

impact toughness

notch toughness

elastic force

impact ductility

impact flexibility

dynamic ductility

energy to fracture

airiness

resilient energy

Translations

résilience

resilienza

Resilienz

resiliência

Elastizität

elasticidad

resiliencia

ελαστικότητα

elasticidade

elasticità

Spannkraft

ressort

élasticité

veerkracht

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/

Etymology

From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + -ence.