resilience
- Noun. The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
- Noun. The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
- Noun. The positive ability of a system or company to adapt itself to the consequences of a catastrophic failure caused by power outage, a fire, a bomb or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
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