resilience

See also: résilience

English

Etymology

From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹə.zɪl.ɪ.əns/

Noun

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).

Related terms

• resilient

Translations

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

• Chinese:
• Dutch: herstellingsvermogen
• Finnish: sitkeys (fi), sinnikkyys (fi), lannistumattomuus (fi)
• French: résilience (fr) f
• German: Resilienz (de) f, Belastbarkeit f, Widerstandsfähigkeit f
• Greek: ψυχολογική αντοχή (psychologikí antochí), ανθεκτικότητα (el) (anthektikótita)
• Hungarian: ellenállóképesség (hu), stressztűrő képesség
• Mandarin: 彈性 (zh)

• Navajo: tʼáá ałtsoní bichʼįʼ haʼahóní
• Norwegian: motstandsdyktighet f
• Polish: odporność (pl) f
• Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f
• Russian: усто́йчивость (ru) f (ustójčivostʹ)
• Spanish: resiliencia (es) f
• Tagalog: manhid
• Turkish: çabuk iyileşme özelliği

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 (epanataktikótita), επαναπροσαρμοστικότητα (epanaprosarmostikótita), ελαστικότητα (el) (elastikótita)
• Hungarian: stressztűrés, rugalmasság (hu)
• Italian: resilienza (it) f

• Korean: 탄성 (ko) (tanseong)
• Polish: sprężystość (pl) f
• Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f
• Russian: упру́гость (ru) f (uprúgostʹ), ги́бкость (ru) f (gíbkostʹ), эласти́чность (ru) f (elastíčnostʹ)
• Spanish: resiliencia (es) f, elasticidad (es) f
• Swedish: elasticitet (sv) c
• Turkish: elastikiyet (tr), elastiklik, rezilyans, 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 (akampsimótita)
• Hungarian: stressztűrés, terhelhetőség
• Russian: усто́йчивость (ru) f (ustójčivostʹ)

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 恢復力, ^{(please verify)} 恢复力 (ㄏㄨㄟㄈㄨˋㄌㄧˋ, huīfùlì)

Further reading

• resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia