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Versatility vs Optionality - What's the difference?

versatility | optionality |

As nouns the difference between versatility and optionality

is that versatility is the property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility while optionality is the value of additional optional investment opportunities available only after having made an initial investment.

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.

    optionality

    English

    Noun

    (optionalities)
  • (finance, business) The value of additional optional investment opportunities available only after having made an initial investment.
  • The short-term payoff for this is modest, but the optionality value is enormous.
  • Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed.
  • Some offices do not follow the corporate procedure, due to a culture of optionality .

    See also

    * call (finance) * put (finance)