resilience.

1. The capacity to recover or adapt when faced with disruption, adversity or significant strain.

2. The capacity of a material to regain its shape or recover energy after elastic deformation.

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Words that belong together

• institutional resilience
• resilience under stress

On the page

Institutional resilience became visible when essential services recovered after the disruption.

The analysis treated resilience as a capacity supported by resources, not as an obligation to endure harm.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: definition, comparison, qualification, causal analysis. Disciplines: academic writing, institutional analysis, general research. Commonness: moderately common.