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).

Noun

(en-noun)

The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.

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A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.

Physical condition.

(obsolete) Cure, remedy.

*, Bk.XVII, Ch.XI:

*:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.

(countable) A toast to prosperity.

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