resilience

résilience

Capacité à se remettre d’expériences difficiles ou bouleversantes et à continuer à avancer.

En anglais simple : The ability to recover and keep going after difficult or upsetting experiences.

• She showed great resilience after losing her job.
• Supportive friendships can help children build resilience.
• His resilience helped him recover from a difficult year.

Synonymes : toughness, mental strength

Contraires : fragility

Expressions courantes : emotional resilience, build resilience, show resilience

élasticité, résilience

Capacité d’un matériau à reprendre sa forme initiale après avoir été étiré, plié ou comprimé.

En anglais simple : The ability of a material to return to its original shape after being stretched, bent, or pressed.

• This rubber has excellent resilience.
• We tested the foam's resilience after repeated compression.
• The material loses its resilience as it ages.

Synonymes : elasticity, springiness

Expressions courantes : material resilience, resilience of rubber, test resilience