Facility

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fa=cil=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Facility, n. [L. facilitas, fr. facilis easy: cf. F. facilité. See Facile.].

•  The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.  [1913 Webster]

  "The facility with which government has been overturned in France."  [1913 Webster]
•  Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.  [1913 Webster]
•  Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is a great error to take facility for good nature."  [1913 Webster]
•  Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.  [1913 Webster]

  "Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Facility, n. (pl. -ies)
1 ease; absence of difficulty.
2 fluency, dexterity, aptitude (facility of expression).
3 (esp. in pl.) an opportunity, the equipment, or the resources for doing something.
4 US a plant, installation, or establishment.

Etymology

F facilit{eacute} or L facilitas (as FACILE)

THESAURUS

Facility

WC, abandon, ability, ableness, accommodation, accouterments, adaptability, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, advantage, agency, agreeability, agreeableness, aid, airmanship, alacrity, amenability, amenity, apparatus, appliance, appliances, appointments, appurtenance, appurtenances, aptitude, aptness, armament, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, bendability, bent, biddability, bog, bravura, brightness, brilliance, butcher shop, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, celerity, cleverness, comfort, command, company, competence, complex, compliableness, concern, control, convenience, conveniences, coordination, corporation, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, desk, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, docility, drive, ductibility, ductility, duffel, ease, easiness, educability, efficacy, efficiency, effortlessness, elasticity, elegance, engine, enginery, equipage, equipment, establishment, expertise, expertness, extendibility, extensibility, facilities, faculty, fictility, finesse, firm, fitness, fitting, fittings, fixture, fixtures, flair, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, flow, fluency, formativeness, furnishings, furniture, gear, genius, give, grace, gracefulness, grip, handiness, head, horsemanship, house, impedimenta, impressionability, ingeniousness, ingenuity, installation, installations, institution, intelligence, john, kit, know-how, lavatory, leaning, lightness, limberness, litheness, loft, loo, machine, machinery, malleability, marksmanship, masterfulness, mastership, mastery, materiel, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, moldability, motivation, motive power, motor, munition, munitions, organization, outfit, paraphernalia, parlor, plant, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, plumbing, poetry, poise, power plant, power source, practical ability, privy, proficiency, propensity, prowess, qualification, quickness, readiness, receptiveness, receptivity, resource, resourcefulness, responsiveness, rest room, rig, rigging, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, shop, skill, skillfulness, smoothness, speed, spontaneity, springiness, stock-in-trade, structure, studio, style, submissiveness, subservience, sufficiency, suppleness, susceptibility, sweatshop, swiftness, system, tackle, tact, tactfulness, talent, teachability, teachableness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tensileness, tensility, the goods, the stuff, things, timing, toilet, tractability, tractility, trainableness, turn, unconstraint, utensils, utility, virtuosity, what it takes, willingness, willowiness, wit, wizardry, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workmanship, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, yieldingness

ROGET THESAURUS

Facility

Skill

N skill, skillfulness, address, dexterity, dexterousness, adroitness, expertness, proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight, mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy, ambidexterity, ambidextrousness, sleight of hand, seamanship, airmanship, marksmanship, horsemanship, rope-dancing, accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, art, science, technicality, technology, practical knowledge, technical knowledge, knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire, tact, mother wit, discretion, finesse, craftiness, management, self-help, cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius, intelligence, sharpness, readiness, invention, aptness, aptitude, turn for, capacity for, genius for, felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas, qualification, habilitation, proficient, masterpiece, coup de maitre, chef d'euvre, tour de force, good stroke, skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain, slick, smart, proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished, conversant, experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed, up in, well up in, in practice, in proper cue, competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished, clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed, inventive, shrewd, sharp, on the ball, cunning, alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff, discreet, neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure- footed, cut out for, fitted for, technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian, shipshape, workman- like, business-like, statesman-like, skillfully, well, artistically, with skill, with consummate skill, secundum artem, suo Marte, to the best of one's abilities, ars celare artem, artes honorabit, celui qui veut celui-la peut, c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher son, expertus metuit, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille sich ein C, heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute, if you have lemons, make lemonade.

Facility

N facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation, permission, simplicity, lack of complication, easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed, easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed, touch and go.

Freedom

N freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.