resilience
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/
The English word “resilience” has 4 meanings listed here.
noun
- The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- 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).
- The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
Etymology
From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + English -ence.
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