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Convenience vs Resilience - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between convenience and resilience

is that convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient while resilience is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune).

convenience

English

(wikipedia convenience)

Noun

(en noun)
  • the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
  • * Shakespeare
    • Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
  • anything that makes for an easier life
  • * Cowper
    • Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
    Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .
  • a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
  • (chiefly, British) a public toilet

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * convenience food * convenience store * flag of convenience * marriage of convenience

    Related terms

    * convene * convenient * convent * convention

    External links

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    resilience

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia resilience)
  • 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).

    • Related terms

    * resilient