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Willpower vs Resilience - What's the difference?

willpower | resilience |

As nouns the difference between willpower and resilience

is that willpower is the unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes while resilience is resilience (the mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune).

willpower

English

(wikipedia willpower)

Alternative forms

* will power

Noun

(-)
  • The unwavering strength of will to carry out one’s wishes.
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    • See also

    * self-control

    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