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. 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
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"
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Prolagus There's a misspelling of Italian resilienza in the etymology box. Feb 3, 2010