fa•cil´i•ty
(fa•sil´i•ty), n.; pl. Facilities (- tiz). [L. facilitas, fr. facilis easy: cf. F. facilite. See Facile.]
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.” Burke.
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.” L’Estrange.
4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. “Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.” South.
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. 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.´
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.” Burke.
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.” L’Estrange.
4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. “Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.” South.
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. 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.´
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