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Entertainment vs Facility - What's the difference?

entertainment | facility |

As nouns the difference between entertainment and facility

is that entertainment is an activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games while facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.

entertainment

Alternative forms

* entretainment (chiefly archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.
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  • a show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others
  • (obsolete) maintenance or support
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  • Admission into service; service.
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  • (obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.
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  • The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

    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