facility
/fəˈsɪlɪti/ noun B1- 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.· A wide range of facilities is available at the sports center, including a weight room and saunas.
- A building or campus specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
- The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty; simplicity.
- Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. · The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- A toilet.
- A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
- Affability.
Plural facilities
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“Everything,” he said, “proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person,—this sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family and an illustrious name awarded to me, gold showered down upon me, and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into.
But nothing escaped the count’s notice, and he observed a little note, passed with the facility that indicates frequent practice, from the hand of Madame Danglars to that of the minister’s secretary.
One of his peculiarities was never to speak a word of French, which he however wrote with great facility.”
Then, all at once, he replied, with that logic which the reader has, doubtless, remarked in him, “There is nothing astonishing in seeing a gendarme at an inn; instead of being astonished, let me dress myself.” And the youth dressed himself with a facility his valet de chambre had failed to rob him of during the two months of fashionable life he had led in Paris.
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