Facility /(fȧ*sĭl"ĭ*ty̆)/

Fa·cil·i·ty

Facility

n.

pl. Facilities ((fȧ*sĭl"ĭ*tĭz))

  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.