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Resiliency   /rɪzˈɪljənsi/   Listen
Resiliency

noun
1.
An occurrence of rebounding or springing back.  Synonym: resilience.
2.
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: resilience.






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"Resiliency" Quotes from Famous Books



... the love that is the strongest thing in life. Abolish property, and the disease of the desire for it, the desire to grasp and have, and you'll need no government to protect you. The vividness and resiliency of the life of man is being fast crushed under organisation, tabulation. Over-organisation is death. It is disorganisation, not organisation, that ...
— One Man's Initiation—1917 • John Dos Passos

... three wide, the mid point rising in a curve from the water's edge. As far as Shann could make out in the half-light the color was a reddish-brown, the surface rough. And he thought by the way that it moved that it must be flotsam of the storm, buoyant enough to ride the waves with close to cork resiliency. To Shann's dismay his companion ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton



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



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