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Resiliency   Listen
noun
resiliency, resilience  n.  
1.
The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
2.
The power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, stretched, compressed, or twisted; elasticity(1); springiness; of objects and substances.
3.
Hence: The power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity(2); of people.
4.
(Mech. & Engin.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.





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"Resiliency" Quotes from Famous Books



... caution as he approached the rocks, glancing hurriedly about him as he moved swiftly from cover to cover. Closer—closer—then Fairchild repressed a gasp. The man was old, almost white-haired, with hard, knotted hands which seemed to stand out from his wrists; thin and wiry with the resiliency that outdoor, hardened muscles often give to age, and with a face that held Fairchild almost hypnotized. It was like a hawk's; hook-beaked, colorless, toneless in all expressions save that of a malicious tenacity; the eyes ...
— The Cross-Cut • Courtney Ryley Cooper
... slept well. But I, who had not his youthful resiliency, lay for long, awake and uneasy. I had hardly sunk into troubled slumber ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt


Words linked to "Resiliency" :   elasticity, recoil, backlash, repercussion, resilient, resile, snap


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