Resilience is the strength to bend under blows and come back straight. Show resilience, build resilience, remarkable resilience.
In psychology it is a studied quality: what lets some people recover from hardship better than others, and how much of it is circumstance rather than character. In engineering, resilience is a material's ability to spring back after deformation, which is the literal sense. In policy and business, resilience means a system's capacity to survive shocks — supply chain resilience, flood resilience. Note resilient, and that calling for resilience can be a way of avoiding fixing what caused the strain.
1nounresilienceThe strength to recover after hardship.
“The town showed great resilience, rebuilding every house after the flood.”
2nounmaterialsA material's ability to spring back into shape.
“The resilience of the rubber is what makes the whole thing work.”
resilience is a capacity to recover.
From resiliō + -ence.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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