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resilience.

The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/Received-Pronunciation/ɹɪˈzɪl.jəns/Canada, General-American/ɹɪˈzɪl.i.əns/Canada, General-American/ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/Canada, General-American
  1. The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

    countable · uncountable
  2. The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.

    countable · uncountable
  3. 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).

    countable · uncountable
  4. The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Latin saliō Latin resiliō English -ence English resilience From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + English -ence.

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