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Adaptability vs Versatility - What's the difference?

adaptability | versatility |

As nouns the difference between versatility and adaptability

is that versatility is the property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility while adaptability is the quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.

adaptability

English

Noun

  • The quality of being adaptable; a quality that renders adaptable.
  • (biology) Variability in respect to, or under the influence of, external conditions; susceptibility of an organism to that variation whereby it becomes suited to or fitted for its conditions of environment; the capacity of an organism to be modified by circumstances.

    • Related terms

    * adapt * adaptable * adaptableness * adaptably * adaptation * adaptational * adaptative * adaptatively * adaptativeness * adaptedness * adapter * adaption * adaptional * adaptitude * adaptive * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptly * adaptness * adaptorial

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    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.