Resilience
Pronunciation
- IPA: /rə.zɪl.ɪ.əns/
Origin
From Latin resiliÅ ("to spring back").
Noun
resilience
(countable and uncountable; plural resiliences)- 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 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).