Tolerance vs Resilience - What's the difference?
tolerance | resilience |
(uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
(uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
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).