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noun

Facility n. (pl. facilities)

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."

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."

4.

Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. "Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility."

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.

Synonyms: 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." "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."

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"Facility" Quotes from Famous Books

... ascertain, so far as may be compatible with professional rules, how far my clients are acquainted with documents alleged or imagined to be in existence, and how far their conduct might be guided by desire to afford every reasonable facility?" ...

— Mary Anerley • R. D. Blackmore

... the discovery of the incipient causes of madness, by the facility it afforded us for the dissection and examination of the minutest portions of the ...

— Another World - Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah • Benjamin Lumley (AKA Hermes)

... and hours of labour. Identical theories and demands, preferred simultaneously in Austria, Germany, France, England, and America, must be largely due to the force of example operating through the modern facility of communication. A universal movement in favour of shorter hours would seem best fitted to secure the amelioration of the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. • Various

... between the two women. After Mercedes had freely taught Saxon the loose-wristed facility of playing accompaniments on the ukulele, she proposed an exchange. Her time was past, she said, for such frivolities, and she offered the instrument for the breakfast cap of which Saxon had made ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... and the affair was hushed. I was obliged, however, to walk circumspectly, and saw my companion the prince very seldom, who was prowling about every day, quite unconcerned about his safety. He was every day a new man, however, and needed not to be alarmed at any danger; for such a facility had he in disguising himself that, if it had not been for a password which we had between us, for the purposes of recognition, I never could have known ...

— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg

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