resilience
See also: résilience
English edit
Etymology edit
From resilio + -ence, from Latin resiliō (“to spring back”).
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Noun edit
resilience (countable and uncountable, plural resiliences)
- (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- (physics) 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).
- Antonyms: fragility, brittleness
- Coordinate terms: adaptability, adaptiveness, antifragility, flexibility
- 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
- Network Rail previously said it is determined to build upon the "significant changes" it has made since the accident, which have "helped us to manage the risk of severe weather to the network". It has invested millions to improve the resilience of the railway.
- (literal or figurative) The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
- Antonyms: fragility, brittleness
- Coordinate terms: antifragility, toughness
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mental ability
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physical property of material
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ability of a system or company to recover
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Further reading edit
- resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia