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Plasticity vs Resilience - What's the difference?

plasticity | resilience |

As nouns the difference between plasticity and resilience

is that plasticity is the quality or state of being plastic while resilience is the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

plasticity

English

(wikipedia plasticity)

Noun

  • The quality or state of being .
  • (physics) the property of a solid body whereby it undergoes a permanent change in shape or size when subjected to a stress exceeding a particular value (the yield value)

    • Related terms

    * elasticity

    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