Resilience vs. Resilient

By Jaxson

  • Resilience (noun)

    The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

  • Resilience (noun)

    The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.

  • Resilience (noun)

    The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).

  • Resilient (adjective)

    Returning quickly to original shape after force is applied; elastic

  • Resilient (adjective)

    Returning quickly to normal after damaging events or conditions.

Wiktionary
  • Resilience (noun)

    the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness

    “the often remarkable resilience of so many British institutions”

  • Resilience (noun)

    the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity

    “nylon is excellent in wearability, abrasion resistance and resilience”

Oxford Dictionary

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