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[ri-zil-yuhns, -zil-ee-uhns]

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noun

the power or ability to return to the original form, position, etc., after being bent, compressed, or stretched; elasticity.

ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.

Also, re·sil·ien·cy.

Origin:
1620–30; < Latin resili(ēns), present participle of resilīre to spring back, rebound (see resilient) + -ence

Related forms

non·re·sil·i·ence, noun

non·re·sil·i·en·cy, noun

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Example Sentences

Ginsburg says parents can help children develop resiliency for coping with life's ups and downs.

For years we've given affirmative action to affluent white students in the area of resiliency.

Odd as this may sound, it all attests to the resiliency of virtual private servers rather than underscore any fundamental flaws.

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Ginsburg says parents can help children develop resiliency for coping with life's ups and downs.

For years we've given affirmative action to affluent white students in the area of resiliency.

Odd as this may sound, it all attests to the resiliency of virtual private servers rather than underscore any fundamental flaws.

And individual firms, he added, have shown great resiliency following previous disasters.

We only have evidence for the resiliency of carbon-water based lifeforms.

The crisis highlights the team of operators and the resiliency of the machines themselves.

According to researchers who have studied the pattern, its resiliency can be traced to several structural factors.

People have a resiliency when it comes to family and religion.

Such resiliency in internal timing is not seen in more complex single-celled organisms, nor in mammalian nerve cells.

The problem, according to the patent, is that ordinary clay mixtures do not drain well and lose resiliency.

What the article misses is the reason behind the relative resiliency.

The global economy was being run at full throttle, without due attention to resiliency and vulnerability to shocks.

Finitzo has delivered a remarkable testament to the resiliency of youth.

They include increased travel, more immigration and the bug's resiliency to pesticides.

He has demonstrated great resiliency in repeated efforts to move on to new talking points after earlier ones are demolished.

It can also increase their resiliency to subsequent adversity.

But resiliency has its limits in a place that reverted late last summer to its diluvian origins.

One is that economic resiliency can co-exist quite easily with significant levels of human suffering:.

My medieval notions of leprosy were dispelled by this story of the resiliency of the human spirit.

Mixed in with it were extraordinary resiliency and a deep understanding of his opponents' psychology.

The indictment illustrated the resiliency of drug gang activity even after previous crackdowns.

Here, doom and decay rub up against resiliency and renewal.

The coming holiday shopping season will be the true test of consumer resiliency.

Biskind only briefly considers the resiliency of the economic.

Some experts believe that workers have developed a certain amount of resiliency after decades of corporate firings and layoffs.

But resiliency has its limits in a place that reverted late last.

Malakhov begins with a magically concealed resiliency in his takeoff and ends with astonishing soft landings.

The flip side of his sometimes comical nature was a resiliency that was remarkable even for a politician.

Bush administration officials have been at odds with military leaders over the strength and resiliency of the insurgency.

The tiny rubber granules that contribute to the turf's resiliency are primarily made from recycled.

The resiliency of global supply networks and quick action by companies are part of the reason.

He spoke with the players afterward, delivering a message about unity, resiliency and trust.

Paterno has been known for his resiliency and fitness.

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Word Origin & History

resilience

1620s, from L. resiliens, prp. of resilire "to rebound, recoil," from re- "back" + salire "to jump, leap" (see salient). Cf. result.

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