As nouns the difference between resilience and perseverance
is that
resilience is the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune while
perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
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
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perseverance English
Alternative forms
* perseveraunce (archaic)
Noun
( -)
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
Synonyms
* See also
Related terms
* persevere
* perseverant
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