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Resilience   /rɪzˈɪliəns/  /rɪzˈɪljəns/   Listen
Resilience

noun
1.
The physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit.  Synonym: resiliency.
2.
An occurrence of rebounding or springing back.  Synonym: resiliency.





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"Resilience" Quotes from Famous Books



... kind of spiritual resilience. It is that which makes a man come back with new vigor to his work after his first failure. It is the ability ...
— Humanly Speaking • Samuel McChord Crothers
... of angry arms towards the sea; or if they are to be goodly and solemn pines, with trunks like pillars of temples, and the purple burning of their branches sheathed in deep globes of cloudy green. Those, then, are their fateful lines; see that you give that spring and resilience, whatever you leave ungiven: depend upon it, their chief beauty ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Resilience" :   recoil, resiliency, snap, elasticity, backlash, resilient, repercussion, rebound, resile


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