antifragility

/ˌæntɪfrəˈdʒɪlɪti/

a property of systems that increase in capability or resilience as a result of stressors

antifragility in a sentence

“Muscles clearly demonstrate the concept of antifragility.”

Coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (anti- + fragile)

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