resilience

See also: résilience

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium due to the consequences of a crisis or failure caused by any type of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).

Related terms

• resile
• resilient
• result

Translations

mental ability

• Chinese:
• Dutch: herstellingsvermogen
• Finnish: toipumiskyky (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
• Italian: resilienza (it) f
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• 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: усто́йчивость (ru) f (ustójčivostʹ)
• Spanish: resiliencia (es) f
• Tagalog: manhid
• Turkish: çabuk iyileşme özelliği

physical property of material

• Catalan: resiliència f
• Dutch: veerkracht (nl)
• Finnish: palautuvuus (fi), kimmoisuus (fi), elastisuus (fi)
• French: résilience (fr) f
• German: Elastizität (de) f, elastisches Verformungsarbeitsaufnahmevermögen n
• Greek: επανατακτικότητα (epanataktikótita), επαναπροσαρμοστικότητα (epanaprosarmostikótita), ελαστικότητα (el) (elastikótita)
• Hungarian: stressztűrés, rugalmasság (hu)
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• 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)

ability of a system or company to recover

• Dutch: veerkracht (nl)
• Finnish: toipumiskyky (fi)
• German: Resilienz (de) f
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• 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／恢复力 (huīfùlì), ^{(please verify)} 恢复力 (ㄏㄨㄟㄈㄨˋㄌㄧˋ, huīfùlì)
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Further reading

• resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia