1. (n.) Freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
2. (n.) Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
3. (n.) Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; -- usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
4. (n.) Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
5. (n.) That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; -- usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.
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