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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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