Usually means: Capacity to recover from difficulties.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. resilience: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. resilience: Merriam-Webster
  3. resilience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. resilience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. resilience: Collins English Dictionary
  6. resilience: Vocabulary.com
  7. Resilience, resilience: Wordnik
  8. resilience: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. resilience: Wiktionary
  10. resilience: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. resilience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. resilience: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. resilience: Dictionary.com
  14. resilience: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. resilience: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Resilience (Drowning Pool album), Resilience (book), Resilience (disambiguation), Resilience (ecology), Resilience (film), Resilience (materials science), Resilience (network), Resilience (organizational), Resilience (psychology), Resilience (sculpture), Resilience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Resilience: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. resilience: Rhymezone
  19. Resilience: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. resilience: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. resilience: FreeDictionary.org
  22. resilience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. resilience: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. resilience: Legal dictionary
  3. resilience: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. resilience: CCI Computer
  2. Resilience: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. resilience: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. resilience: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. resilience: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Resilience: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  4. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See resiliences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
noun:  (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
noun:  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).
noun:  (literal or figurative) The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.

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