Difference between Resiliency and Resilience

What is the difference between Resiliency and Resilience?

Resiliency as a noun is resilience while Resilience as a noun is the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

Resiliency

Part of speech: noun

Definition: resilience

Resilience

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.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).

Example sentence: When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

We hope you now know whether to use Resiliency or Resilience in your sentence.

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