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Resilience vs Phlegmatic - What's the difference?

resilience | phlegmatic |

As nouns the difference between resilience and phlegmatic

is that resilience is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune) while phlegmatic is one who has a phlegmatic disposition.

As an adjective phlegmatic is

not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.

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).
  • phlegmatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * phlegmatick * phlegmaticke * phlegmatique

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1873 , author=Jules Verne , title=Around the World in 80 Days , chapter=2 citation , passage=Calm and phlegmatic , with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.}}
  • * 2013 , A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of , dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print.
  • Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
  • (archaic) Abounding in phlegm; as, phlegmatic humors; a phlegmatic constitution.
  • Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • cold and phlegmatic habitations
  • Watery (en).
  • Synonyms

    * apathetic, sluggish, cold-blooded, unflappable, stoic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who has a phlegmatic disposition.