Versatility vs Volatile - What's the difference?
versatility | volatile |
The property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility.
* 1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son 1749
(physics) evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.
(of a substance, informal) explosive.
(of a price etc) variable or erratic.
(of a person) quick to become angry or violent.
fickle.
temporary or ephemeral.
(of a situation) potentially violent.
(computing, of a variable) having its associated memory immediately updated with any changes in value.
(computing, of memory) whose content is lost when the computer is powered down
(obsolete) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
As a noun versatility
is the property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility.As an adjective volatile is
evaporating or vaporizing readily under normal conditions.versatility
English
Noun
(en-noun)- 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.