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Multipurpose vs Versatility - What's the difference?

multipurpose | versatility |

As an adjective multipurpose

is (senseid)having multiple uses.

As a noun versatility is

the property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility.

multipurpose

English

Adjective

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  • (senseid)Having multiple uses.

    • versatility

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility.
  • * 1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son 1749
    • Those are the sort of women who polish a young man the most, and who give him that habit of complaisance, and that flexibility and versatility of manners which prove of great use to him with men, and in the course of business.