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Webster 1913 Edition


Versatility

Verˊsa-til′i-ty

,
Noun.
[Cf. F.
versatilité
.]
The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.

Webster 1828 Edition


Versatility

VERSATIL'ITY

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Noun.
1.
The quality of being versatile; aptness to change; readiness to be turned; variableness.
2.
The faculty of easily turning one's mind to new tasks or subjects; as the versatility of genus.

Definition 2024


versatility

versatility

English

Noun

versatility (usually uncountable, plural versatilities)

  1. 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.

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