resilience

Meanings

1. The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
2. The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
3. The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium after a crisis, failure or any kind of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
4. The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.

Etymology

From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + -ence.