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Convenience vs Facility - What's the difference?

convenience | facility |

As nouns the difference between convenience and facility

is that convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient while facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

convenience

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * convene * convenient * convent * convention

    External links

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    facility

    English

    Noun

    (facilities)
  • The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
  • *, II.12:
    • Clytomachus'' affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of ''Carneades'', what opinion he was of. Why hath ''Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
  • Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
    • 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.
    • Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)
    • , chapter=1, title= Internal Combustion , passage=As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities .}}
  • (North America, in the plural) A toilet.

    • Derived terms

    * correctional facility