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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being changeable or fickle; variableness.
  • noun The faculty of easily turning one's mind to new tasks or subjects; facility in taking up various pursuits or lines of thought or action; versatileness: as, the versatility of genius.
  • noun Specifically, in ornithology, capability of turning either backward or forward, as a toe; the versatile movement of such a digit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The property of being versatile or having many different abilities; flexibility.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun having a wide variety of skills

Etymologies

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versatile +‎ -ity

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