resilience
/ɹɪˈzɪl.jəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
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
noun
The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re- Latin saliō Latin resiliō English -ence English resilience From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + English -ence.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪˈzɪl.jəns/
- British English: /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/