Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
- n. The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of resiling, leaping, or springing back; the act of rebounding.
- n. In machinery See the quotation.
Wiktionary
- n. The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- n. The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- n. The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling.
- n. The power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, stretched, compressed, or twisted; elasticity[1]; springiness; -- of objects and substances.
- n. The power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity[2]; -- of people.
- n. (Mech. & Engin.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
- n. an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
Etymologies
- From Latin resiliō ("to spring back"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The problem with the word 'resilience' is it has a slightly dour sense to it and comes from handling adversity and there is something more positive to say.”
“A community where we are unconcerned about the long-term resilience is like the rocky soil in the parable of the Sower and the Seeds (Luke 8): when trials and tribulations come, the community will be lost.”
“Rhoda said the AU Commission is looking at building what she calls resilience through long-term and sustainable systems.”
Voice of America: African Union Plans Long-Term Solution to Drought, Famine
“The word "resilience" is now frequently invoked when describing 9/11 survivors.”
“Recently at a UNECSO event, the former Governor General of Canada and a Special Envoy for Haiti said she hates the word "resilience" used in the Haitian context.”
“So first is what we call a resilience business activity.”
“And, I mean I think that I think that you will hear, around the 10th anniversary, the word resilience quite a lot from people, which covers a lot of things - physical resilience; we need to have a society that can withstand, whether it's Hurricane Irene or a terrorist attack, and they're kind of - you know, there's ways to build buildings and create infrastructure that kind of resists these kinds of either natural disasters or man-made disasters.”
“The challenge now is to ensure that crisis recovery efforts rebuild for long-term resilience.”
The Huffington Post: Benjamin K. Sovacool: Adapting to Climate Change the Right Way
“The key to building resilience is to foster the system's capacity to adapt to dramatic change.”
The Huffington Post: Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan"
“Greater decentralization and localization are building resilience from the ground up - shaped by ancient indigenous wisdom of becoming native to our place.”
The Huffington Post: Kenny Ausubel: The Revolution Has Begun - "The Shift Hits the Fan"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘resilience’.
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hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 317 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Homeland Security
Words associated with homeland security
resilience, terrorism, preparedness, catastrophe, fear, radicalization, intelligence, security theater, bogeyman, Weapons of mass d..., Critical infrastr..., Emergence and 45 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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Vampire Words
Words that make me think of Vampire: The Requiem
torpor, torpid, amaranth, vitae, embrace, ventrue, toreador, masquerade, dominate, nightmare, majesty, dread and 103 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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Sophisticated Words Used by President...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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biological
( personal list, randomness )
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/dead--1
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hypermobility, amphibious, immortality, cybernetic, endothelium, hyperform, biodiversity, adaptation, thermoregulation, ecophysiology, ectothermic, endothermic and 94 more... -
SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL R
rabid, raconteur, rail, rambunctious, ramification, rampant, rancor, rancorous, range, rankle, ransack, rapacious and 112 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1999 more...
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Simple Business Words
Simple useful basic business words
observation, suggestion, condition, situation, action, attention, caution, innovation, position, adoption, inflated, consideration and 82 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for resilience.
Prolagus There's a misspelling of Italian resilienza in the etymology box. Feb 3, 2010