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.
Synonyms
ability, adeptness, adroitness, aptitude, capability, capacity, competence, competency, cunning, deftness, dexterity, ease, facility, installation, knack, list, moxie, potential, proficiency, quickness, readiness, skill, talent, tekkers, touch
Scrabble Score: 16
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