FACILITY

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

3.
n.

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.
n.

Easiness of access; complaisance; affability. Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility. South.

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.


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