Resilience vs. Strength — What's the Difference?

The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness

The quality or state of being physically strong

The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity

The capacity of an object or substance to withstand great force or pressure

The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy.

The potency or degree of concentration of a drug, chemical, or drink

The property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity.

A good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing

The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

The number of people comprising a group, typically a team or army

(physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.

The state or quality of being strong; physical power or capacity

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).

The capacity to resist attack; impregnability

The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.

The capacity to resist strain or stress; durability

The act of springing back, rebounding, or resiling; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound.

The ability to deal with difficult situations or to maintain a moral or intellectual position

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.

The number of people constituting a normal or ideal organization

The power or ability to recover quickly from a setback, depression, illness, overwork or other adversity; buoyancy; elasticity[2]; - of people.

Capability in terms of numbers or resources

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.

An attribute or quality of particular worth or utility; an asset

The physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit

One that is regarded as the embodiment of protective or supportive power; a support or mainstay

An occurrence of rebounding or springing back

Degree of concentration, distillation, or saturation

Operative effectiveness or potency

Intensity, as of sound or light

Intensity of emotion or belief

Cogency or persuasiveness

Effective or binding force; efficacy

Firmness of or a continuous rising tendency in prices, as of a currency or market.

(Games) Power derived from the value of playing cards held.

The quality or degree of being strong.

The intensity of a force or power; potency.

The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.

A positive attribute.

(obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.

(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.

(obsolete) To strengthen all senses.

The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.

Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; - in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like.

Power of resisting attacks; impregnability.

That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument.

One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security.

Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea?

Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; - said of literary work.

Intensity; - said of light or color.

Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; - said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids.

A strong place; a stronghold.

To strengthen.

The property of being physically or mentally strong;

Capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war;

Physical energy or intensity;

An asset of special worth or utility;

The power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty;

The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation);

Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects;

The condition of financial success;

Permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force;