resiliência
Portuguese, noun/ʁe.zi.liˈẽ.sjɐ/
resiliência is spelled R-E-S-I-L-I-Ê-N-C-I-A (11 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 21,965th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Resiliência is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “resilience (the ability to recover quickly from negative circumstances)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “propriedade do material de retornar à forma ou posição original uma vez cessada a tensão sobre o mesmo”.
What does resiliência mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineresilience (the ability to recover quickly from negative circumstances)
- 2
feminineresilience (the property of material of restoring its original shape)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. propriedade do material de retornar à forma ou posição original uma vez cessada a tensão sobre o mesmo 2. habilidade que uma pessoa desenvolve para resistir, lidar e reagir de modo positivo em situações adversas
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of resiliência
- resiliências plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce resiliência?
- Brazil /ʁe.zi.liˈẽ.sjɐ/
- Brazil [he.zi.liˈẽ.sjɐ]
- Brazil /ʁe.ziˈljẽ.sjɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to resiliência
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is resiliência in Portuguese?
resiliência appears 2.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).