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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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... depends on chance whether this disorganized constitution will ever take new shape or not ... and as I said yesterday, I should have more hope if the city were but young; seeing that not only does a state at the commencement take form with greater facility than one that has grown old under evil governments, but things always turn out more prosperously and more easily while fortune is yet fresh and has not run its course,' etc.[3] In reading the Dialogue on the Constitution of Florence it must finally be remembered ...

— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... angrily that his ears were less quick, and that he had not such a useless facility for picking up words ...

— A Soldier of the Legion • C. N. Williamson

... who is really in earnest, however, in the desire to help another, will never give up because there are difficulties to overcome. The visitor may not know, but as compared with the homemaker in a poor family, has far more time and a greater facility, perhaps, in learning. The visitor's best teachers are friends that have had experience, and the poor themselves. One can learn a great deal from the more frugal and industrious of the very poor, and these are proud to explain {66} their ...

— Friendly Visiting among the Poor - A Handbook for Charity Workers • Mary Ellen Richmond

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— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... finished manuscript is submitted to the chief of the bureau for final approval to ensure accuracy of statement. While the United States bureaus are not allowed to give their official endorsement to books, yet they are all eager to afford every facility to the author to take up their branch next. These are the very books that will develop boys into well-informed and valuable citizens of these United States, alive to the needs of conservation of the vast resources and ...

— The Cabin on the Prairie • C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

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