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Resilience vs Preservation - What's the difference?

resilience | preservation |

As nouns the difference between resilience and preservation

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

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

    preservation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill.
  • * William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
    • Nature does not require''
    ''Her times of preservation, which, perforce''
    ''I give my tendence to
  • * Ecclesiastes. xxxiv. 16
    • The eyes of the Lord are upon them that love him, his is ther mighty protection, a preservation from stumbling, and a help from falling.
  • *
    • Every seneseless thing by nature's light''
    ''Doth preservation seek, destruction shun
  • *
    • Our allwise maker has put into man the uneasiness of hunger, thirst and other natural desires, to determine their wills for the preservation of themselves, and the continuation of their species.