Definition of FACILITY

facility

Meanings

Plural: facilities

Noun

  • a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
    • "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"
  • skillful performance or ability without difficulty
    • "he was famous for his facility as an archer"
  • a natural effortlessness; ; --Jane Austen
    • "they conversed with great facility"
  • something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service
  • a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you
    • "a cell phone with internet facility"
  • The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
  • Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
  • The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
  • A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
  • Clipping of credit facility.
  • A toilet.
  • A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
  • Affability.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.

Scrabble Score: 16

facility is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
facility is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
facility is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

facility is a valid Words With Friends word