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Resilience vs Optimism - What's the difference?

resilience | optimism |

As nouns the difference between resilience and optimism

is that resilience is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune) while optimism is a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome.

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

    optimism

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun) (wikipedia optimism)
  • a tendency to expect the best, or at least, a favourable outcome
    • I love her youth, her beauty and above all her optimism that everything will turn out fine.
  • the doctrine that this world is the best of all possible worlds
  • the belief that good will eventually triumph over evil

    • Antonyms

    * pessimism

    Derived terms

    * optimist