facility

noun facilities

1. countable, uncountable The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
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. Clytomachus affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of Carneades, what opinion he was of. Why hath Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
4. countable, uncountable Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

   Similar: ease, knack, ability, technique, aptitude, capacity, craft, capability, competency, competence, cunning, dexterity

5. abbreviation, 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.