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Versatility vs Automation - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between versatility and automation

is that versatility is the property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility while automation is automation.

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.

    automation

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act or process of converting the controlling of a machine or device to a more automatic system, such as computer or electronic controls.
  • * 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/politics/race-for-president-leaves-income-slump-in-shadows.html?_r=1&hp]," New York Times (retrieved 24 October 2012):
  • The presidential campaign has been more focused on Bain Capital and an “apology tour” than on the challenges created by globalization and automation .