Resilience Meaning and Usage

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Resilience meaning:

noun

- the ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
- the property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.

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Usage examples:

"some resilient plastic material"
"I'm a resilient kind of person"
"the resilience of human beings"

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Forms:

resilient - adjective
resiliency - noun
resiliently - adverb

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Use Resilience in a sentence:

1. In spite of the violence in Northern Ireland, industry there has shown a remarkable resilience.

2. The earthquake destroyed thousands of people's lives but I was struck by the incredible resilience of the survivors I met.

3. Do not stretch your face into funny positions because it may not be resilient.

4. The athlete proved himself to be very resilient after his ankle injury.

5. Foam rubber is a very resilient material, and cushions made from it retain their shape after being sat on hundreds of times.

6. Gwen showed that she was resilient by joking with the paramedics only moments after they pulled her from the rubble of the collapsed building.


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Resilience Synonyms:

bounce, buoyancy, elasticity, ductility, flexibility, malleability, pliability, pliancy, suppleness, strength, toughness, adaptability, hardiness

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Resilience Antonyms:

fragility, inflexibility, rigidity, vulnerability, weakness

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Some more examples:

1. There is a need for more resilient bumpers on cars that can withstand minor accidents.

2. She knew him well enough to be sure that, sooner or later, the resiliency of his nature would assert itself.

3. Early next morning, before the other two were awake, Harry left the tent to search the woods around them for the oldest, most gnarled, and resilient—looking tree he could find.

4. The resilience of youth is astonishing, and Bill was soon on his feet again.

5. Tony showed that he was resilient by hitting a home run after striking out three consecutive times.
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