Viability vs Utility - What's the difference?
viability | utility |
the property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed
* 1904, Hugo DeVries, Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
* 1980, Jimmy Carter, State of the Union Address
The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
Something that is useful.
(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
(business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
As nouns the difference between viability and utility
is that viability is the property of being viable; the ability to live or to succeed while utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness.viability
English
(wikipedia viability)Noun
(-)- Ordinarily these altered organs are sterile, but in some instances a very small quantity of seed is produced, and when testing their viability I succeeded in raising a few plants from them.
- In making its grants the Endowment will increase its emphasis on techniques which stimulate support for the humanities from non-Federal sources, in order to reinforce our tradition of private philanthropy in this field, and to insure and expand the financial, viability of our cultural institutions and life.
Usage notes
* Viability is a false friend in Italian, and it does not mean "".utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.