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Regeneration vs Resilience - What's the difference?

regeneration | resilience |

As nouns the difference between regeneration and resilience

is that regeneration is rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal while resilience is the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

regeneration

English

Noun

(wikipedia regeneration)
  • rebuilding or restructuring; large scale repair or renewal.
  • ''The conversion of so many old industrial buildings into living quarters was a major factor in the regeneration .
  • (fantasy, gaming) restoration of health or hit points
  • * 1995 , David Zeb Cook, Jean Rabe, Warren Spector, Dungeon master guide for the AD&D game (page 202)
  • The standard ring of regeneration restores one point of damage per turn (and will eventually replace lost limbs or organs).
  • * 2003 , Bastion Press, E. W. Morton, Out for Blood
  • Regeneration does not restore hit points lost from starvation, thirst, or suffocation.

    Synonyms

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    Abbreviations

    * regen

    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).