Facility

Noun

 * 1) Ease in learning or in doing something; proficiency
 * The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
 * 1) An installation, contrivance, or other thing which facilitates something; a place for doing something.
 * Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.

Synonyms for Facility
readiness, quickness, easiness, ease, dexterity, skillfulness, expertness, adroitness, proficiency, cleverness, ability, resource, convenience, civility, courtesy, affability.

Antonyms for Facility
difficulty, slowness, unfitness, ineptitude, unsuitableness, clumsiness, awkwardness, unskillfulness, discourtesy, rudeness.

Derived terms

 * correctional facility

Thesaurus
WC, abandon, ability, ableness, accommodation, accouterments, adaptability, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, advantage, agency, agreeability, agreeableness, aid, airmanship, alacrity, amenability, amenity, apparatus, appliance, appliances, appointments, appurtenance, appurtenances, aptitude, aptness, armament, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, bendability, bent, biddability, bog, bravura, brightness, brilliance, butcher shop, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, celerity, cleverness, comfort, command, company, competence, complex, compliableness, concern, control, convenience, conveniences, coordination, corporation, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, desk, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, docility, drive, ductibility, ductility, duffel, ease, easiness, educability, efficacy, efficiency, effortlessness, elasticity, elegance, engine, enginery, equipage, equipment, establishment, expertise, expertness, extendibility, extensibility, facilities, faculty, fictility, finesse, firm, fitness, fitting, fittings, fixture, fixtures, flair, flexibility, flexility, flexuousness, flow, fluency, formativeness, furnishings, furniture, gear, genius, give, grace, gracefulness, grip, handiness, head, horsemanship, house, impedimenta, impressionability, ingeniousness, ingenuity, installation, installations, institution, intelligence, john, kit, know-how, lavatory, leaning, lightness, limberness, litheness, loft, loo, machine, machinery, malleability, marksmanship, masterfulness, mastership, mastery, materiel, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, moldability, motivation, motive power, motor, munition, munitions, organization, outfit, paraphernalia, parlor, plant, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, plumbing, poetry, poise, power plant, power source, practical ability, privy, proficiency, propensity, prowess, qualification, quickness, readiness, receptiveness, receptivity, resource, resourcefulness, responsiveness, rest room, rig, rigging, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, sensibility, sensitiveness, sequacity, servility, shop, skill, skillfulness, smoothness, speed, spontaneity, springiness, stock-in-trade, structure, studio, style, submissiveness, subservience, sufficiency, suppleness, susceptibility, sweatshop, swiftness, system, tackle, tact, tactfulness, talent, teachability, teachableness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tensileness, tensility, the goods, the stuff, things, timing, toilet, tractability, tractility, trainableness, turn, unconstraint, utensils, utility, virtuosity, what it takes, willingness, willowiness, wit, wizardry, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workmanship, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, yieldingness

Etymology
From facilité.

Translations

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 * Italian: struttura,  mezzo ,  strumento
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