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Facility vs Fluency - What's the difference?

facility | fluency | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between facility and fluency

is that facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity while fluency is the quality of smoothness of flow.

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

    fluency

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia fluency) (fluencies)
  • The quality of smoothness of flow
  • (linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.
  • The quality of consistently applying skill correctly in the manner of one well-practiced at it, requiring little deliberate thought to perform without mistakes
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.}}

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