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Webster 1913 Edition
Facility
Fa-cil′i-ty
(fȧ-sĭl′ĭ-ty̆)
, Noun.
pl.
Facilities
(fȧ-sĭl′ĭ-tĭz)
. 1.
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease;
as, the
. facility
of an operationThe
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 art3.
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.
Syn. – Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance; condescension; affability.
–
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.” Webster 1828 Edition
Facility
FACIL'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Easiness to be performed; freedom from difficulty; ease. He performed the work or operation with great facility.Though facility and hope of success might invite some other choice.
2.
Ease of performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity. Practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.3.
Pliancy; ductility; easiness to be persuaded; readiness of compliance, usually in a bad sense, implying a disposition to yield to solicitations to evil.It is a great error to take facility for good nature: tenderness without discretion, is no better than a more pardonable folly.
4.
Easiness of access; complaisance; condescension; affability.He offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.
Definition 2024
facility
facility
English
Noun
facility (plural facilities)
- The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity. [from 16th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
- Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. [from 16th c.]
- The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. [from 19th c.]
- Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
- (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet. [from 20th c.]
Derived terms
Translations
fact of being easy
dexterity, skill
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physical means of doing something
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