Crossword clues for resiliency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
resilience \re*sil"i*ence\ (r[-e]*z[i^]l"[i^]*ens), resiliency \re*sil"i*en*cy\ (r[-e]*z[i^]l"[i^]*en*s[y^]), n.
The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
The power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, stretched, compressed, or twisted; elasticity[1]; springiness; -- of objects and substances.
Hence: The power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity[2]; -- of people.
(Mech. & Engin.) The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "tendency to rebound;" see resilience + -cy. Meaning "power of recovery" is from 1857.
Wiktionary
n. resilience
WordNet
n. an occurrence of rebounding or springing back [syn: resilience]
the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit [syn: resilience]
Usage examples of "resiliency".
By now, the actor has acquired enough suppleness and resiliency to snap into the new role which the relendess dramatist has kept in store for him: that of the masochistic hermit.
Mehtar had hypothesized that there was a limit to the resiliency of rejuvenated cells and that Soli, who had thrice been brought back to youth, was close to that limit.
Through this atmospheric mixture she whished it, endowing it with resiliency, with hunger and thirst for bursting skin, for the whistling wind, for all the rustling curtains that a whishing cane can impersonate.
You can weave a strong and secure safety net of encouraging circumstances in the home so that family members can cultivate those kinds of internal resiliencies and strengths that will enable them to deal with the discouraging, anti-family circumstances outside.
One of the many mysteries surrounding him was the existence of enormous reserves of energy stored somewhere in that failing frame, and the indefinable plastic resiliency that allowed him to swoop domineeringly into rooms from which he had last been seen exiting, drained and decrepit, as though tottering off to the nearest coffin.
The distress call originated with the station, crawling up its anchor line with stubborn resiliency.
He was struck, as he had been when visiting the Onlies at the Children's Center, by the resiliency of the young.
And the passing water, and the resiliencies of the rock, had created forms fantastical enough to seem the sculpture of some alien art.