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Resilience

/ɹə.zɪl.ɪ.əns/

The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

📖 Definitions of "Resilience"

noun
  1. 1

    The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

  2. 2

    The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.

  3. 3

    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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