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Belastbarkeit — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • buoyancy noun The upward force that lets an object float or feel lighter in a liquid or gas.
  • reliability noun The quality of being consistently good, trustworthy, or dependable.
  • resilience noun The ability to recover quickly from difficulty.

Senses

Belastbarkeit is used for these senses in English:

  • buoyancy (by extension) Resilience or cheerfulness.
  • reliability (education) the ability to measure the same thing consistently (of a measurement indicating the degree to which the measure is consistent); that is, repeated measurements would give the same result (See also validity).
  • resilience (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.

buoyancy — full definition

  1. noun The upward force that lets an object float or feel lighter in a liquid or gas.
  2. noun A cheerful, resilient mood or lively confidence.

Related German words