different between versatility vs resilience

English

Etymology

versatile +? -ity

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?v??s??t?l?ti/

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.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin resili? (“to spring back”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.z?l.?.?ns/

Noun

resilience (countable and uncountable, plural resiliences)

1. (psychology, neuroscience) The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
2. (physics) The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
3. The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium due to the consequences of a crisis or failure caused by any type of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).

Related terms

• resile
• resilient
• result

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Further reading

• resilience on Wikipedia.Wikipedia