Tact vs Facility - What's the difference?
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The sense of touch; feeling.
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(music) The stroke in beating time.
Sensitive mental touch; peculiar skill or faculty; nice perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances.
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The ability to deal with embarrassing situations carefully and without doing or saying anything that will annoy or upset other people; careful consideration in dealing with others to avoid giving offense; the ability to say the right thing.
(psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
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The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
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Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
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Tact is a related term of facility.
As nouns the difference between tact and facility
is that tact is the sense of touch; feeling while facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.As a verb tact
is (psychology) to use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).tact
Noun
(en noun)- Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?
- Now, sight is a very refined tact .
- He had formed plans not inferior in grandeur and boldness to those of Richelieu, and had carried them into effect with a tact and wariness worthy of Mazarin.
- A tact' which surpassed the '''tact''' of her sex as much as the '''tact''' of her sex surpassed the ' tact of ours.
- By the use of tact , she was able to calm her jealous husband.
- I used tact when I told my fat uncle that his extra weight made him look better.
- Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.
Derived terms
* tactful * tactlessExternal links
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English
Noun
(facilities)- 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?
- The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
Internal Combustion, passage=As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities .}}