Facilities vs. Facility

plural of facility

synonym of facilityin certain contexts.

Facilities for urination and defecation: a toilet; a lavatory.

The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.

Example: ‘The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.’;

The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.

Example: ‘Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.’;

An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.

A toilet.

A condition of mental weakness short of idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.

(dated) Affability.

The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.

Example: ‘The facility with which government has been overturned in France.’;

Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.

Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; - usually in a bad sense; pliancy.

Example: ‘It is a great error to take facility for good nature.’;

Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.

Example: ‘Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.’;

That which promotes the ease of any action or course of conduct; advantage; aid; assistance; - usually in the plural; as, special facilities for study.

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

Example: ‘the assembly plant is an enormous facility’;

skillful performance or ability without difficulty;

Example: ‘his quick adeptness was a product of good design’; ‘he was famous for his facility as an archer’;

a natural effortlessness;

Example: ‘they conversed with great facility’; ‘a happy readiness of conversation’;

services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose;

Example: ‘catering facilities’; ‘toilet facilities’;

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

Example: ‘a cell phone with internet facility’;

a place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose

Example: ‘cooking facilities’; ‘facilities for car parking’; ‘a manufacturing facility’;

a special feature of a service or machine, which offers the opportunity to do or benefit from something

Example: ‘an overdraft facility’;

a natural ability to do or learn something well and easily

Example: ‘he had a facility for languages’;

absence of difficulty or effort

Example: ‘the pianist played with great facility’;