facility

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
2. (countable, uncountable) A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
3. (countable, uncountable) The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
4. (countable, uncountable) Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable) Clipping of credit facility.
6. (Canada, US, countable, in-plural, uncountable) A toilet.
7. (countable, uncountable) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
8. (countable, dated, uncountable) Affability.

Synonyms

ease

easiness

convenience

readiness

institution

establishment

aptitude

installation

function

equipment

office

🏢

freedom

capacity

fluency

post

attendance

service

adroitness

position

job

dexterity

ability

institute

financing facility

carelessness

skill

property

easy

quickness

opportunity

plant

🌱

adeptness

deftness

faculty

facilitation

favourable

facilitate

means

resource

competency

commodity

authority

command

comfort

agency

code

chapter

attachment

estate

chance

🎲

Translations

installation

facilité

facilità

facilidad

Leichtigkeit

facilidade

agevolazione

Einrichtung

instalación

servicio

équipement

instalação

serviço

faciliteit

ευκολία

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fəˈsɪlɪti/

Etymology

From Middle English facilite, from Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilitās. By surface analysis, facile + -ity. Doublet of faculty.