Resilience vs resiliency?

[a friend]

Hello! Can you please tell me if there is a difference in meaning between resilience and resiliency?
Thank you so much!

[Alan]

Hi,

There is no difference - both mean ability to resist shock. I would only add that in British/English resilience is perhaps more common.

Alan
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[JamesR404]

I think there *is* a difference. Just speaking from my mind, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe resiliency is the adjective of resilience.

So for instance, "for sake of resilience the server has been given more disk space for increased resiliency" A very ugly sentence, but grammatically correct.

[Alan]

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Hi,

This post certainly goes back a long way but I still stick with my original comment. For the record 'resilience/resiliency' are both nouns and 'resilient' is in fact the adjective.

Alan
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