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re·sil·ien·cy

(rĭ-zĭl′yən-sē)

Resilience.

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Noun	1.	resiliency - an occurrence of rebounding or springing back resilience backlash, rebound, recoil, repercussion - a movement back from an impact
	2.	resiliency - the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit resilience elasticity, snap - the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap"

resiliency

noun

1. The ability to recover quickly from depression or discouragement:

bounce, buoyancy, elasticity, resilience.

2. The quality or state of being flexible:

bounce, ductility, elasticity, flexibility, flexibleness, give, malleability, malleableness, plasticity, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, resilience, spring, springiness, suppleness.

Obsolete: flexure.

Translations

elasticità resilienza

resiliência

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The ridicule he had endured for years seemed now to weigh him down, and the final blow of Blanche's treachery had robbed him of the resiliency which had made him take it so gaily.

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He became slower of movement, the resiliency went out of his muscles, and his limp became permanent.

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His splendid body and health made new vitality, and he possessed all the resiliency and rebound of youth.

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About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in perpetual fear of things seen and unseen.

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Jackson had been working many hours, and his muscles had lost their resiliency and snap.

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