# resilience

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹɪˈzɪl.ɪ.əns/ · frequency rank #13,410

## Definitions
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.

## Easily confused with
- **resilient** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/resilience-vs-resilient)
- **resiliency** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/resilience-vs-resiliency)
- **residence** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/residence-vs-resilience)

## Common misspellings (15)
`ersilience`, `reislience`, `resiilence`, `resileince`, `resiliance`, `resiliecne`, `resiliencce`, `resilienec`, `resiliennce`, `resilinece`, `resillience`, `resliience`, `ressilience`, `rresilience`, `rseilience`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/resilience