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resilience

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Noun

  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.

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