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

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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

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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

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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. Jeff Navin:

   Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

2. Gerard Cote:

   The way they diagnose malaria now is with a microscope but it is with a big bench top microscope that is relatively complicated to use, takes a trained technician, and you have to have the facility for that scope in a centralized lab somewhere. So basically what we are taking is that gold standard and making it into a portable device.

3. Eric Danielson:

   It is by far one of the most bodies at one time that I've experienced in terms of a nursing home. Based upon the pandemic and the numbers we saw coming out of the facility, I don't know if I'm necessarily shocked about that. It's an unfortunate situation altogether.

4. Edward Friedland:

   After several inquiries by the Court, Metropolitan Correctional Center were notified late today of the BOP's plans to close the facility, metropolitan Correctional Center will be meeting with BOP officials to review their plan so that Metropolitan Correctional Center can ensure all necessary access for attorneys to their clients and the ability for defendants to appear in a timely fashion as required by the court.

5. Joel Smith:

   If it's a bad facility, I don't have faith in the type of answers you will get, i feel like the people who run the bad facilities get really good at rebuffing legitimate questions.