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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.

4. Easiness of access; complaisance;
affability.

Offers himself to the visits of a friend with
facility.

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. -- 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.


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