resilience

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• IPA ^(key): /rɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/

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Noun

Singular resilience

Plural resiliences

1. Resilience is the mental strength to recover from misfortune.

   He needed resilience to continue working after the death of his wife.

2. (physics) Resilience is elasticity, how much something can stretch.

   The scientists measured the resilience of the metal beam.

Related words

• resilient