versatility
nounAU, UK /ˌvɜː.səˈtɪl.ɪ.tiː/ · CA, US /ˌvɜɹ.səˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
Etymology From versatile + -ity.
1
Usually The property of being versatile or having many different abilities.
- 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.1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son 1749
- We broke up our tests into three categories — performance, durability and versatility — so we could compare the different features of each jacket against the others directly.2025 January 3, Kai Burkhardt, “The best rain jackets of 2025, tried and tested”, in CNN:
- Related terms
- versatilely, variability