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resiliency|rɪˈzɪlɪənsɪ|
[Cf. prec. and -ency.]
1. Tendency to rebound or recoil.
1668H. More Div. Dial. iii. xxiv. (1713) 238 There is the more strong and peremptory Resiliency from this sordid Region of Misery and Sin. 1676― Remarks 143 The resiliency of the Quick-silver against the top of the Tube. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 110 ⁋7 The common resiliency of the mind from one extreme to another. 1826[J. R. Best] Four Yrs. France 78 Disgusted with these appearances of distrust and resiliency.
2. Tendency to return to a state.
1778Phil. Surv. S. Ireland 144 Such is the resiliency of all nature to its original state.
3. = resilience 2.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 511/2 The resiliency by which the skin recovers itself after pressure. 1863Wynter Subtle Brains 33 The process of vulcanization that gives such extraordinary resiliency to the material. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 191 The advantage of combining the softening influence of the saccharine with the resiliency of the colloid.
4. Buoyancy, power of recovery.
1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan xvi. 379 Notwithstanding the calamities caused by the earthquake, there was shown a resiliency in the Japanese character which spoke well for their energy. 1888Leeds Mercury 24 Feb. 4/7 The active properties of resiliency possessed by the Russian rouble. |