resilience

See also résilience

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rə.zɪl.ɪ.əns/

Noun

Wikipedia resilience (uncountable)

1. The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
2. The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
3. 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).

Translations

the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune

Finnish: sitkeys (fi), sinnikkyys (fi), lannistumattomuus (fi) French: résilience (fr) f. German: Resilienz (de) f. Greek: ψυχολογική αντοχή (el), ανθεκτικότητα (el) Norwegian: motstandsdyktighet f. Polish: odporność (pl) f.

Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f. Russian: устойчивость (ru) f. Spanish: elasticidad (es) f. Swedish: elasticitet (sv) c. Turkish: çabuk iyileşme özelliği (tr)

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

Finnish: joustavuus (fi), kimmoisuus (fi) French: résilience (fr) f. German: Elastizität (de) f.; elastisches Verformungsarbeitsaufnahmevermögen n. Greek: επανατακτικότητα (el), επαναπροσαρμοστικότητα (el), ελαστικότητα (el) Italian: resilienza (it) f. Korean: 탄성 (ko)

Polish: sprężystość (pl) f. Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f. Russian: упругость (ru) (uprúgost’) f., гибкость (ru) f., эластичность (ru) f. Turkish: elastikiyet (tr), elastiklik (tr), rezilyans (tr), yaylanma (tr), dayanıklılık (tr)

the ability of a system or company to recover from a catastrophic failure

Finnish: sietokyky (fi) German: Resilienz (de) f. Greek: ακαμψιμότητα (el)

Russian: устойчивость (ru) f.

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Mandarin: 恢復力, 恢复力 (ㄏㄨㄟㄈㄨˋㄌㄧˋ, huīfùlì)

Spanish: elasticidad (es) f.

Related terms

• resilient