Fortitude vs. Resilience — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fortitude and Resilience
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Fortitude
Strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage.
Resilience
The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness
The often remarkable resilience of so many British institutions
Fortitude
Mental or emotional strength that enables courage in the face of adversity.
Resilience
The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity
Nylon is excellent in wearability, abrasion resistance and resilience
Fortitude
(archaic) Physical strength.
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Resilience
The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.
Fortitude
Power to resist attack; strength; firmness.
The fortitude of the place is best known to you.
Resilience
The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.
Fortitude
That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
Extolling patience as the truest fortitude.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Resilience
The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
Fortitude
Strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
Resilience
(physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
Resilience
The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium after a crisis, failure or any kind of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
Resilience
The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
Resilience
The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.
Resilience
The power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, stretched, compressed, or twisted; elasticity[1]; springiness; - of objects and substances.
Resilience
The power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity[2]; - of people.
Resilience
The mechanical work required to strain an elastic body, as a deflected beam, stretched spring, etc., to the elastic limit; also, the work performed by the body in recovering from such strain.
Resilience
The physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
Resilience
An occurrence of rebounding or springing back
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