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Coping vs Resilience - What's the difference?

coping | resilience |

As nouns the difference between coping and resilience

is that coping is the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water while resilience is the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

As a verb coping

is present participle of lang=en.

coping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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  • *:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
  • (lb) The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
  • (lb) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • 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