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antifragility

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from fragilitās
  2. borrowed from fragilité
  3. prefixed as antifragility — “anti + fragility”

Definitions

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

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

The neighborhood

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