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Versatility vs Versatile - What's the difference?

versatility | versatile |

Versatile is a derived term of versatility.



As a noun versatility

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

As an adjective versatile is

capable of doing many things competently.

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.

    versatile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of doing many things competently.
  • Having varied uses or many functions.
  • Changeable or inconstant.
  • (biology) Capable of moving freely in all directions.
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  • Derived terms

    * versatility

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