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Definition of resilience : Alt. of Resiliency

Synonyms:

malleability, malleableness, resiliency, bounce, flexure, ability, give, flexibleness, ductility, pliableness, flexible, pliantness, spring, pliability

extensibility, buoyancy, mutability, limberness, pliancy, plasticity, stretchiness, recoil, elasticity, flexibility, snap, suppleness, adaptability, litheness, springiness

Usage examples:

• The preservation of the resilience is a function of the internal secretions. - "The Glands Regulating Personality", Louis Berman, M.D..
• T. X. fell with a dull sickening thud, discovering that his rosy snows were not unlike cold, hard ice in their lack of resilience. - "The Clue of the Twisted Candle", Edgar Wallace.
• Such torrid splendour, drenching a land of austerut simplicity, decomposes the mind into corresponding states of primal contentment and resilience. - "Old Calabria", Norman Douglas.