resilience

See also: résilience

English

Etymology

From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) +‎ -ence.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/
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Noun

resilience (countable and uncountable, plural resiliences)

(psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- 2021, Lisa Miller, The Awakened Brain, Ch.2, at p.36:
  Martin Seligman's impressive body of research showed that a pessimistic explanatory style carves a path to depression, while an optimistic explanatory style leads to resilience.
(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

Derived terms

rebound resilience

Related terms

Translations

mental ability

Afrikaans: veerkragtigheid
Catalan: resiliència (ca) f
Chinese:
Dutch: veerkracht (nl) c, herstellingsvermogen (nl) n
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: toipumiskyky, lannistumattomuus (fi), sitkeys (fi), resilienssi (fi)
French: résilience (fr) f
German: Resilienz (de) f, Belastbarkeit (de) f, Widerstandsfähigkeit (de) f
Greek: ψυχολογική αντοχή (psychologikí antochí), ανθεκτικότητα (el) (anthektikótita)
Hungarian: ellenálló képesség (hu), stressztűrő képesség
Italian: resilienza (it) f
Mandarin: 彈性 / 弹性 (zh) (tánxìng)
Navajo: tʼáá ałtsoní bichʼįʼ haʼahóní
Norwegian: motstandsdyktighet f
Polish: odporność (pl) f
Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f
Russian: психологи́ческая усто́йчивость f (psixologíčeskaja ustójčivostʹ)
Spanish: resiliencia (es) f
Tagalog: manhid
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: çabuk iyileşme özelliği

physical property of material

Afrikaans: veerkragtigheid
Bulgarian: гъвкавост (bg) f (gǎvkavost), еластичност (bg) (elastičnost)
Catalan: resiliència (ca) f
Dutch: veerkracht (nl)
Finnish: palautuvuus, kimmoisuus (fi), elastisuus (fi)
French: résilience (fr) f
Galician: resiliencia f
German: Elastizität (de) f, elastisches Verformungsarbeitsaufnahmevermögen n
Greek: επανατακτικότητα (epanataktikótita), επαναπροσαρμοστικότητα (epanaprosarmostikótita), ελαστικότητα (el) (elastikótita)
Hungarian: stressztűrés, rugalmasság (hu)
Italian: resilienza (it) f, elasticità (it)
Korean: 탄성 (ko) (tanseong)
Polish: sprężystość (pl) f
Portuguese: (literally) resiliência (pt) f
Romanian: reziliență (ro)
Russian: упру́гость (ru) f (uprúgostʹ), ги́бкость (ru) f (gíbkostʹ), эласти́чность (ru) f (elastíčnostʹ)
Spanish: resiliencia (es) f, elasticidad (es) f
Swedish: elasticitet (sv) c
Thai: สภาพยืดหยุ่น (sà-pâap-yʉ̂ʉt-yùn)
Turkish: elastikiyet (tr), elastiklik, rezilyans, yaylanma (tr), dayanıklılık (tr)

ability of a system or company to recover

Afrikaans: veerkragtigheid
Arabic: القدرة على التعافي بعد الصدمة
Catalan: resiliència (ca) f
Dutch: veerkracht (nl)
Finnish: toipumiskyky, resilienssi (fi)
Galician: resiliencia f
German: Resilienz (de) f
Greek: ανακαμψιμότητα (anakampsimótita)
Hungarian: stressztűrés, terhelhetőség (hu)
Italian: determinazione (it), tenacia (it)
Russian: усто́йчивость (ru) f (ustójčivostʹ), запа́с про́чности (ru) m (zapás próčnosti)
Ukrainian: сті́йкість f (stíjkistʹ)
Vietnamese: tính chống chịu

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