Facility vs. Easiness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Facility and Easiness
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Definitions
Facility
A place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose
Cooking facilities
Facilities for car parking
A manufacturing facility
Easiness
Capable of being accomplished or acquired with ease; posing no difficulty
An easy victory.
An easy problem.
Facility
A natural ability to do or learn something well and easily
He had a facility for languages
Easiness
Likely to happen by accident or without intention
It's easy to slip on the wet floor. It's easy to push the wrong button.
Facility
Ease in moving, acting, or doing
"a soldier who was expected to be able to fell a tree ... or build a bridge with equal facility" (Bruce I. Gudmundsson).
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Easiness
Requiring or exhibiting little effort or endeavor; undemanding
Took the easy way out of her problems.
Wasn't satisfied with easy answers.
Facility
An ability or talent; an aptitude
"He was a mediocre student who had a facility for absorbing details without curiosity" (Jhumpa Lahiri).
Easiness
Free from worry, anxiety, trouble, or pain
My mind was easy, knowing that I had done my best.
Facility
A building, room, array of equipment, or a number of such things, designed to serve a particular function
Hospitals and other health care facilities.
Easiness
Affording comfort or relief; soothing
Soft light that was easy on the eyes.
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Facility
Something that facilitates an action or process
The region has very poor transportation facilities.
Easiness
Prosperous; well-off
Easy living.
Easy circumstances.
Facility
Facilities(Informal) A restroom or public toilet.
Easiness
Causing little hardship or distress
An easy penalty.
A habit that isn't easy to give up.
Facility
The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
Easiness
Socially at ease
An easy, good-natured manner.
Facility
Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
Easiness
Relaxed in attitude; easygoing
An easy disposition.
Facility
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.
Easiness
Not strict or severe; lenient
An easy teacher.
Easy standards.
Facility
An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
Easiness
Readily exploited, imposed on, or tricked
An easy mark.
An easy victim.
Facility
Clip of credit facility
Easiness
Not hurried or forced; moderate
An easy pace.
An easy walk around the block.
Facility
A toilet.
Easiness
Light; gentle
An easy tap on the shoulder.
Facility
A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
Easiness
Not steep or abrupt; gradual
An easy climb.
Facility
(dated) Affability.
Easiness
Less in demand and therefore readily obtainable
Commodities are easier this quarter.
Facility
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation.
The facility with which government has been overturned in France.
Easiness
Plentiful and therefore at low interest rates
Easy money.
Facility
Ease in performance; readiness proceeding from skill or use; dexterity; as, practice gives a wonderful facility in executing works of art.
Easiness
Promiscuous; loose.
Facility
Easiness to be persuaded; readiness or compliance; - usually in a bad sense; pliancy.
It is a great error to take facility for good nature.
Easiness
Without haste or agitation
Relax and take it easy for a while.
Facility
Easiness of access; complaisance; affability.
Offers himself to the visits of a friend with facility.
Easiness
With little effort; easily
Success that came too easy.
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.
Easiness
In a restrained or moderate manner
Go easy on the butter.
Facility
A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry;
The assembly plant is an enormous facility
Easiness
Without much hardship or cost
Got off easy with only a small fine.
Facility
Skillful performance or ability without difficulty;
His quick adeptness was a product of good design
He was famous for his facility as an archer
Easiness
Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
Facility
A natural effortlessness;
They conversed with great facility
A happy readiness of conversation
Easiness
Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
Facility
Services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose;
Catering facilities
Toilet facilities
Easiness
The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
Facility
A service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you;
A cell phone with internet facility
Easiness
Freedom from discomfort and worry: comfort.
Easiness
Freedom from inhibition and awkwardness: grace.
Easiness
Lack of concern or care: carelessness, indolence.
Easiness
Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
Easiness
Lack of harshness: gentleness, kindness.
Easiness
Lack of firm conviction: gullibility, credulity.
Easiness
State or quality of being promiscuous, of consenting readily to sex; sluttiness.
Easiness
The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.
Easiness
Freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the easiness of a task.
Easiness
Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.
Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness.
Easiness
Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; - said of style, manner, etc.
With painful care, but seeming easiness.
Easiness
Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.
Easiness
A state of refreshing tranquility
Easiness
Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort;
He rose through the ranks with apparent ease
They put it into containers for ease of transportation
