facility

Meaning

Noun

  • 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.
  • An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
  • 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

  • From Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. faculty.

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