resilience
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/ɹə.zɪl.ɪ.əns/
English
Definitions
noun
- The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- 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 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).
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Synonyms
resiliencyirrepressibilitybuoyancysoliditycapabilityresponsivenesscapacityabilityadaptabilityadaptiveadaptationsuitabilityforcedeterminationfirmnesssoundness