resiliency

C2+ Topic:Abstract Ideas

US /rɪˈzɪliənsi/ UK /rɪˈzɪliənsi/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
the ability to recover quickly from difficulty

The community showed great resiliency after the flood.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the ability to recover... resilience toughness elasticity buoyancy hardiness adaptability springiness

Opposites

fragility brittleness vulnerability

Word family

Related forms resilient resile salient

Etymology

From resilient + -cy, from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire ('to leap back, rebound'), from re- ('back') + salire ('to leap').

resilire Latin salire Latin *sel- Proto-Indo-European

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# resiliency

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /rɪˈzɪliənsi/
**IPA (UK):** /rɪˈzɪliənsi/

## Meanings
1. the ability to recover quickly from difficulty

## Examples
- The community showed great resiliency after the flood.

## Synonyms
- resilience
- toughness
- elasticity
- buoyancy
- hardiness
- adaptability
- springiness

## Antonyms
- fragility
- brittleness
- vulnerability

## Related Forms
- resilient
- resile
- salient

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: resilire
- Root: salire
- Root: *sel-

## Etymology
From resilient + -cy, from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire ('to leap back, rebound'), from re- ('back') + salire ('to leap').

## AI Etymology
Resiliency comes from resilient + -cy, from Latin resiliens, present participle of resilire ('to leap back, rebound'), from re- ('back') + salire ('to leap'). The historical chain includes Latin resilire, Latin salire, and Proto-Indo-European *sel-. The quoted older senses, "to leap back, rebound", "back", and "to leap", supply the semantic anchors for resiliency. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, participial, and borrowed: the word resiliency carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the ability to recover quickly from difficulty". Related English forms include resilient, resile, and salient. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Abstract Ideas
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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