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antifragility

antifragility noun: the ability of a system to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility.

Noun

antifragility (uncountable)

  1. The ability of a system to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility.

Origin of antifragility

Coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2012, from anti- + fragility.

Questions about antifragility

What does antifragility mean?
Antifragility means the ability of a system to benefit and grow from a certain class of random events, errors, and volatility.
What part of speech is antifragility?
Antifragility is a noun.

Words near antifragility in the dictionary

  1. antifowl
  2. antifox
  3. antifracking
  4. antifracture
  5. antifragile
  6. antifragility
  7. antifragmentation
  8. antifraternization
  9. antifraud
  10. antifraudulent
  11. antifray

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