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Resilience vs Reliability - What's the difference?

resilience | reliability |

As nouns the difference between resilience and reliability

is that resilience is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune) while reliability is the quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy.

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

    reliability

    English

    (wikipedia reliability)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The quality of being reliable, dependable or trustworthy.
  • The quality of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent, that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See validity).
  • In engineering measurable time of work before failure