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Fitness vs Resilience - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fitness and resilience

is that fitness is the condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate while resilience is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune).

fitness

English

(Physical fitness)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate.
  • The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique.
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    • , year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Carroll has been edging slowly towards full fitness after his expensive arrival from Newcastle United and his partnership with £23m Luis Suarez showed rich promise as Liverpool controlled affairs from start to finish.}}
  • (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.

    • Synonyms

    * beauty, health * (condition of being suitable) strength, suitability, competence, capability * (condition of being attractive) see

    Antonyms

    * flab, sloth * (ability to perform) weakness

    Anagrams

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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