"facility" Definition

Definitions for the word "facility" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
(pl. -ies) 1 ease; absence of difficulty. 2 fluency, dexterity. 3 (esp. In pl.) Opportunity or equipment for doing something. [latin: related to *facile]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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