versatility
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- enPR: vûr′sə-tĭl′ĭ-tē[1]
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌvɜː.səˈtɪl.ɪ.tiː/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌvɜɹ.səˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˌvøː.səˈtəl.ə.tiː/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˌvɛɹ.səˈtɪl.ɪ.ti/
- (India) IPA(key): /ˌvəːʳ.saˈʈɪl.ɪ.ʈiː/
- Rhymes: -ɪlɪti
- Hyphenation: ver‧sa‧til‧i‧ty[1]
Noun
versatility (usually uncountable, plural versatilities)
- The property of being versatile or having many different abilities.
- Synonyms: versatileness (less common); 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.
Related terms
Translations
the property of being versatile or having many different abilities
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “versatile”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading
- “versatility”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.