resilience

Meaning: the ability to recover quickly from difficulties

resilience in a sentence

How resilience is used in real sentences:

The community's resilience showed as neighbors rebuilt homes after the flood.

After losing his job twice in one year, he credited his resilience for helping him start a business that finally succeeded.

“The team's resilience showed after a caster snapped: they borrowed one from a storage cart, repaired the wall, and resumed rehearsal that evening.”
— from the passage The Turning Walls

Synonyms for resilience

Other words for resilience — toughness, hardiness and elasticity — carry the same meaning.

toughness
hardiness
elasticity

Antonyms of resilience

Words that mean the opposite of resilience:

fragility
weakness
vulnerability

Where it comes from

From Latin resilire 'to leap back, rebound'

Memory hook

RE-SIL-ience — think 're-spring' back, like a rubber band snapping into shape.

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