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Convenience vs Facilitate - What's the difference?

convenience | facilitate |

As a noun convenience

is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient.

As a verb facilitate is

to make easy or easier.

convenience

Noun

(en noun)
  • the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
  • anything that makes for an easier life
  • * Cowper
  • Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
    Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .
  • a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
  • (chiefly, British) a public toilet
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * convenience food * convenience store * flag of convenience * marriage of convenience

    facilitate

    English

    Verb

    (facilitat)
  • To make easy or easier.
  • To help bring about
  • To preside over (a meeting, a seminar)