2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Facility \Fa*cil"i*ty\, n.; pl {Facilities}. [L. facilitas fr
facilis easy: cf F. facilit?. See {Facile}.]
1. The quality of being easily performed; freedom from
difficulty; ease; as the facility of an operation.
The facility with which government has been
overturned in France. --Burke.
2. Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or
use dexterity; as practice gives a wonderful facility in
executing works of art.
3. Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; --
usually in a bad sense pliancy.
It is a great error to take facility for good
nature. --L'Estrange.
4. Easiness of access complaisance; affability.
Offers himself to the visits of a friend with
facility. --South.
5. That which promotes the ease of any action or course of
conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the
plural; as special facilities for study.
Syn: Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance;
condescension; affability.
Usage: {Facility}, {Expertness}, {Readiness}. These words
have in common the idea of performing any act with
ease and promptitude. Facility supposes a natural or
acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness
and ease. Expertness is the kind of facility acquired
by long practice. Readiness marks the promptitude with
which anything is done A merchant needs great
facility in dispatching business; a banker, great
expertness in casting accounts; both need great
readiness in passing from one employment to another.
``The facility which we get of doing things by a
custom of doing makes them often pass in us without
our notice.'' --Locke. ``The army was celebrated for
the expertness and valor of the soldiers.'' ``A
readiness to obey the known will of God is the surest
means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty.''
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
facility
n 1: something created to provide a particular service; "the
assembly plant is an enormous facility" [syn: {installation}]
2: skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from
practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves
proficiency" [syn: {proficiency}, {technique}]
3: skillful performance without difficulty; "his quick
adeptness was a product of good design" [syn: {adeptness},
{adroitness}, {deftness}, {quickness}]
4: a natural effortlessness; "a happy readiness of
conversation"--Jane Austen [syn: {readiness}]
5: a room equipped with washing and toilet facilities [syn: {toilet},
{lavatory}, {lav}, {can}, {john}, {privy}, {bathroom}]
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