Associations to the word «Resilience»

Wiktionary

RESILIENCE, noun. The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
RESILIENCE, noun. The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
RESILIENCE, noun. 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).

Dictionary definition

RESILIENCE, noun. The physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit.
RESILIENCE, noun. An occurrence of rebounding or springing back.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke