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Resilience vs Conquer - What's the difference?

resilience | conquer |

As a noun resilience

is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune).

As a verb conquer is

to defeat in combat; to subjugate.

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).
  • conquer

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms.
  • To overcome an abstract obstacle.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • By winning words to conquer hearts, / And make persuasion do the work of fear.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
  • To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
  • To acquire by force of arms, win in war.
  • Derived terms

    * conquerable * unconquerable * conqueror * conquest