The quality of not just surviving stress and challenges, but actually becoming stronger and better because of them. Unlike resilience (bouncing back), antifragility means thriving and improving through adversity.
Coined by philosopher Nassim Taleb in 2012, combining 'anti-' (opposite of) with 'fragility' (easily broken). Taleb created this term because no existing word captured the concept of systems that gain from disorder, as opposed to merely withstanding it.
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