resilience

See also résilience

English

Etymology

From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /rə.zɪl.ɪ.əns/

Noun

Wikipedia resilience (countable and uncountable; plural resiliences)

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

• Dutch: herstellingsvermogen (nl)
• Finnish: sitkeys (fi), sinnikkyys (fi), lannistumattomuus (fi)
• French: résilience (fr) f
• German: Resilienz (de) f
• Greek: ψυχολογική αντοχή (el) (psychologikí antochí), ανθεκτικότητα (el) (anthektikótita)
• Norwegian: motstandsdyktighet f

• Polish: odporność (pl) f
• Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f
• Russian: устойчивость (ru) (ustojčivostʹ) f
• Spanish: resiliencia (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

• Dutch: veerkracht (nl)
• Finnish: joustavuus (fi), kimmoisuus (fi)
• French: résilience (fr) f
• German: Elastizität (de) f; elastisches Verformungsarbeitsaufnahmevermögen n
• Greek: επανατακτικότητα (el) (epanataktikótita), επαναπροσαρμοστικότητα (el) (epanaprosarmostikótita), ελαστικότητα (el) (elastikótita)
• Italian: resilienza (it) f
• Korean: 탄성 (ko)

• Polish: sprężystość (pl) f
• Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f
• Russian: упругость (ru) (uprúgost’) f, гибкость (ru) (gibkostʹ) f, эластичность (ru) (elastičnostʹ) f
• Spanish: resiliencia (es) f; elasticidad (es) 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

• Dutch: veerkracht (nl)
• Finnish: sietokyky (fi)
• German: Resilienz (de) f

• Greek: ακαμψιμότητα (el) (akampsimótita)
• Russian: устойчивость (ru) (ustojčivostʹ) f

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

Related terms

• resilient