Synonyms for facility
fəˈsɪl ɪ tifa·cil·i·ty

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. facility

   Ease in the sense here considered denotes freedom from conscious or apparent effort, tax, or strain. Ease may be either of condition or of action; facility is always of action; readiness is of action or of expected action. One lives at ease who has no pressing cares; one stands at ease, moves or speaks with ease, when wholly without constraint. Facility is always active; readiness may be active or passive; the speaker has facility of expression, readiness of wit; any appliance is in readiness for use. Ease of action may imply merely the possession of ample power; facility always implies practise and skill; any one can press down the keys of a typewriter with ease; only the skilled operator works the machine with facility. Readiness in the active sense includes much of the meaning of ease with the added idea of promptness or alertness. Easiness applies to the thing done, rather than to the doer. Expertness applies to the more mechanical processes of body and mind; we speak of the readiness of an orator, but of the expertness of a gymnast. Compare COMFORTABLE; DEXTERITY; POWER.

   Synonyms:
   ease, easiness, expertness, knack, readiness

   Antonyms:
   annoyance, awkwardness, constraint, difficulty, discomfort, disquiet, irritation, perplexity, trouble, uneasiness, vexation, worry

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. facility

   Synonyms:
   ease, address, readiness, quickness, adroitness, dexterity, pliancy

   Antonyms:
   labor, effort, awkwardness, difficulty

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 4 votes

1. facility, installationnoun

   a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry

   "the assembly plant is an enormous facility"

   Synonyms:
   installing, instalment, installation, installment, adeptness, induction, initiation, quickness, adroitness, readiness, deftness

2. adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quicknessnoun

   skillful performance or ability without difficulty

   "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer"

   Synonyms:
   rapidness, celerity, installation, speediness, quick-wittedness, adeptness, rapidity, quickness, adroitness, readiness, mental quickness, deftness

3. facility, readinessnoun

   a natural effortlessness

   "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen

   Synonyms:
   zeal, eagerness, installation, forwardness, set, preparedness, adeptness, quickness, adroitness, readiness, deftness, preparation

4. facilitynoun

   something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience or service

   "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities"; "educational facilities"

   Synonyms:
   adroitness, adeptness, readiness, deftness, quickness, installation

5. facilitynoun

   a service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you

   "a cell phone with internet facility"

   Synonyms:
   adroitness, adeptness, readiness, deftness, quickness, installation

Matched Categories

1. • Artifact
   • Effortlessness
   • Service
   • Skillfulness

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. facilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   easiness (in doing any thing), ease

2. facilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   readiness, dexterity, expertness, quickness, knack, ability

3. facilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   affability, condescension, complaisance, urbanity, civility, politeness

4. facilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   pliancy, ductility, flexibility

5. facilitynoun

   Synonyms:
   means, resource, appliance, convenience, advantage

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "facility":

   installation, facilities, installations, mechanism, facilitated, plant, centre, fund, establishment, ease, institution, instrument, installing, service, annex, factory, install, center, installed, mill, device

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1. Ammon Bundy:

   For those that understand what is going on, and those who want to and feel a need to stand, we’re asking them to come, we have a facility that we can house them in.

2. Karen Sims:

   We are a medical facility at Hope Clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and we offer free pregnancy testing, free ultrasound counseling, and education, we have a program called Connections where we work with young ladies and give them those practical needs, so baby material assistance and mentoring and just following them throughout their pregnancy and helping them.

3. Timothy Tan:

   Jackie Bray added, Bureaucracy and dysfunction, and all kinds of barriers to serving patients. The director of clinical operations at the Queens Hospital Center, Dr. Timothy Tan, also spoke with the Times and slammed the incompetence of city officials for not taking some of the pressure off overburdened hospitals, by sending more patients to the Billy Jean King facility. Knowing what our patients had to endure in an overcrowded emergency department, its frustrating how few patients were treated at facilities such as Billie Jean King.

4. Peter King:

   I cannot hire new Secret Service agents until I get an appropriations bill passed by this Congress, not another CR (short-term extension) for a couple of months, i cannot continue to fund our enhanced detention facility in Texas.

5. Gene Hackman:

   [I] haven’t seen the film since the first screening in a dark, tiny viewing room in a post-production company’s facility 50 years ago.