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A word so vague it can mean a hospital, a skill, or a toilet block.
means The ease with which something is done, or the building/equipment that makes doing it possible.
from From Latin facilis, 'easy to do,' built from facere, 'to make or do.' That same root gave us 'fact,' 'factory,' and 'faculty' — all cousins bound by the idea of making things happen. 'Facility' entered English first as a quality (ease, aptitude), and only later slid into meaning the physical place where that ease occurs — a drift that's left it describing everything from a knack for languages to a prison.
- latin root
- facilis means easy, ironically rarely used plainly
- euphemism king
- correctional facility sounds nicer than prison
- dual meaning
- can mean both a skill and a building
- bathroom code
- use the facilities means find a toilet