resilience

See also: résilience

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/

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Noun

resilience (countable and uncountable, plural resiliences)

1. (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
2. (physics) 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 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.

4. (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

• resile
• resiliency
• resilient
• result

 

Translations

mental ability

• Catalan: resiliència (ca) f
• Chinese:
• Dutch: veerkracht (nl) c, herstellingsvermogen 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

• 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
• 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

• Arabic: القدرة على التعافي بعد الصدمة
• Catalan: resiliència (ca) f
• Dutch: veerkracht (nl)
• Finnish: toipumiskyky, resilienssi (fi)
• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

See also

• self-sufficiency
• sustainability

 

Further reading

• resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia