resilience
A rubber band stretches and then returns to its original shape, demonstrating resilience.
- Noun:
- The ability to recover quickly from difficulties, toughness: The capacity to withstand or adapt to challenging life events, stress, or adversity and return to a state of well-being.
- The physical property of a material to return to its original form after being bent, stretched, or compressed: The elasticity or springiness of an object that allows it to absorb energy and regain its shape without permanent deformation.
Psychological/Emotional Context:
- Her resilience helped her overcome the loss of her job. (Her ability to recover helped her overcome the loss of her job.)
- The community showed remarkable resilience after the natural disaster. (The community showed a remarkable ability to recover after the natural disaster.)
Physical/Material Context:
- The resilience of the rubber ball allows it to bounce very high. (The springiness of the rubber ball allows it to bounce very high.)
- This steel alloy is valued for its strength and resilience. (This steel alloy is valued for its strength and its ability to return to shape.)
"Resilience in the face of...": The quality of being resilient when confronted with a specific challenge.
- His resilience in the face of criticism is admirable. (His toughness when confronted with criticism is admirable.)
"To build resilience": To develop or strengthen the capacity to recover from difficulties.
- Regular exercise can help build physical and mental resilience. (Regular exercise can help develop physical and mental toughness.)
"A test of resilience": A situation that challenges one's ability to recover or endure.
- The difficult project was a true test of the team's resilience. (The difficult project was a true challenge to the team's ability to endure.)
Resilient (adjective): Having the quality of resilience.
- She is a very resilient person. (She is a person with great ability to recover.)
- Resilient materials are used in construction. (Materials that can return to shape are used in construction.)
Resiliency (noun): A less common synonym for resilience, with identical meaning.
- The resiliency of the ecosystem is being studied. (The ability of the ecosystem to recover is being studied.)
- Toughness: The state of being strong and not easily damaged or defeated.
- Durability: The ability to withstand wear, pressure, or damage.
- Elasticity: The ability of an object or material to resume its normal shape after being stretched or compressed.
- Fortitude: Courage and strength in facing pain or adversity.
- Bounce back: To recover quickly from a setback (a phrasal verb conceptually related to resilience).
- It took time, but she managed to bounce back from her illness. (It took time, but she managed to recover from her illness.)
To have a thick skin: To be insensitive to criticism or insults (related to emotional resilience).
- Politicians need to have a thick skin. (Politicians need to be resilient to criticism.)
To roll with the punches: To adapt to difficulties as they arise (related to adaptive resilience).
- In this business, you have to learn to roll with the punches. (In this business, you have to learn to adapt to difficulties.)
A rubber band stretches and then returns to its original shape, demonstrating resilience.
- an occurrence of rebounding or springing back
- the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit