\Fa*cil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Facilities}. [L. facilitas, fr.
facilis easy: cf. F. facilit?. See {Facile}.]
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.                 --Burke.
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.                               --L'Estrange.
4. Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
         Offers himself to the visits of a friend with
         facility.                             --South.
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.
Syn: Ease; expertness; readiness; dexterity; complaisance;
     condescension; affability.
Usage: {Facility}, {Expertness}, {Readiness}. These words
       have in common the idea of performing any act with
       ease and promptitude. Facility supposes a natural or
       acquired power of dispatching a task with lightness
       and ease. Expertness is the kind of facility acquired
       by long practice. Readiness marks the promptitude with
       which anything is done. A merchant needs great
       facility in dispatching business; a banker, great
       expertness in casting accounts; both need great
       readiness in passing from one employment to another.
       ``The facility which we get of doing things by a
       custom of doing, makes them often pass in us without
       our notice.'' --Locke. ``The army was celebrated for
       the expertness and valor of the soldiers.'' ``A
       readiness to obey the known will of God is the surest
       means to enlighten the mind in respect to duty.''