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Definition: Facility |
FacilityNoun1. A building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility". 2. Skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer". 3. A natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen. 4. Services and space and equipment provided for a particular purpose; "catering facilities"; "toilet facilities". 5. A service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you; "a cell phone with internet facility". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "facility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Facility \Fa*cil"i*ty\, noun; plural Facilities. [Latin facilitas, from facilis easy: compare to French facilit?. See Facile.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A part of an(N)-service. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | The land, buildings, machinery, apparatus and fixtures employed in carrying on a trade or a mechanical or other industrial business. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An existing or planned location or site at which prime movers, electric generators, and/or equipment for converting mechanical, chemical, and/or nuclear energy into electric energy are situated, or will be situated. Source: European Union. (references) |
Military & Defense | An activity which provides a specific kind of operating assistance to naval, ground, or air forces thereby facilitating any action or operation. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, the term facility has the following meanings:1. A fixed, mobile, or transportable structure, including (a) all installed electrical and electronic wiring, cabling, and equipment and (b) all supporting structures, such as utility, ground network, and electrical supporting structures.
2. A network-provided service to users or the network operating administration.
3. A transmission pathway and associated equipment.
4. In a protocol applicable to a data unit, such as a block or frame, an additional item of information or a constraint encoded within the protocol to provide the required control.
5. A real property entity consisting of one or more of the following: a building, a structure, a utility system, pavement, and underlying land.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 and from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Facility."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| MPMC FACILITY | English | Multiphase-Multicomponent Facility | N/A |
| FAA | English | Facility accepted message | Law |
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Synonyms: FacilitySynonyms: adeptness (n), adroitness (n), deftness (n), installation (n), quickness (n), readiness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Facility | Noun: facility, ease; easiness; Adjective: capability; feasibility; (practicability); flexibility, pliancy; smoothness. |
Freedom | Noun: freedom, liberty, independence; license; (permission); facility. |
Skill | Noun: skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness; Adjective: proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness; sleight of hand; (deception). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Oh, gee, that's great wait, wasn't she convicted of murder and sent to state correctional facility for like a gazillion years (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) You Have offered me a bribe what you have done is a felony for which you could be issued a fine or time in a state correctional facility! (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.) This facility is a school (X2; writing credit: Zak Penn; David Hayter) | |
Clever | That which is acquired without difficulty is dispersed with equal facility. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | The image is of a mouse cDNA microarray containing approximately 8,700 gene sequences (derived from the Incyte GEM1 clone set) printed at the NCI Microarray Facility (Advanced Technology Center, Gaithersburg). It reflects the gene expression differences between two different mouse tissues. Credit: Dr. Jason Kang, NCI. |  | This street-level view of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center and the Ambulatory Care and Research Facility (ACRF). Shown from the northeast corner. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | DHEW Secretary, Caspar Weinberger visits CDC's classware cleaning facility, March 1973. Credit: CDC. |  | CDC facility, Fort Collins, Colorado. Credit: CDC. |
 | Space Station Freedom Centrifuge Facility Mockup. Credit: NASA. |  | Gravitational Biology Facility. Credit: NASA. |
 | Lunar Landing Research Facility. Credit: NASA. |  | Aerial View of Michould Assembly Facility (MAF). Credit: NASA. |
 | A Hercules C-130 aircraft lands at the South Pole Helping supply the geophysical and climatic monitoring facility. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Woods Hole Yacht Club, Great Harbor at Woods Hole (National Marine Fisheries Service facility on right). Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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| "Old rotten facility d" by Simon S. Commentary: "The old facility, there are so bizare optics and chances for god fotos... ." | "Old facility" by Lucian Binder Commentary: "Old factory in metzingen, germany." |
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | So long as the present Treaty remains in force, Germany undertakes to give every facility for any investigation which the Council of the League of Nations, acting if need be by a majority vote, may consider necessary. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Finding the proper facility can itself prove difficult. (references) | |
The accreditation certificate should be posted in the facility. (references) | ||
Or, you may have to return to the medical facility for follow-up examinations. (references) | ||
Business | Bosch has no British manufacturing facility. (references) | |
The need for port facility improvements will continue to increase. (references) | ||
Steelcase has a joint venture manufacturing facility in Saudi Arabia. (references) | ||
Children | Paraguay | Children are housed with adults in the facility and have been subject to sexual assaults from older patients. (references) |
Georgia | The Isolator detention facility for street children in Gldani was overcrowded, and children frequently were abused by other children and guards. (references) | |
Brunei | A special facility with trained educators is needed to accommodate the children with disabilities who cannot be assimilated into normal classrooms, and the Ministry of Education continued to study the problem. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Zimbabwe | On January 28, an explosion destroyed the printing press facility of the Daily News. (references) |
Liberia | Management of the one printing facility capable of producing newspapers is subject to pressure from the Government. (references) | |
South Africa | Illegal immigrants are processed for deportation at a central facility, and sent back to Mozambique and Zimbabwe by weekly trains. (references) | |
Economic History | Uae | Dubai's Jebel Ali also plans a new facility. (references) |
Egypt | The mortgage facility in Egypt is underdeveloped. (references) | |
Nicaragua | The Holiday Inn-Select has a large conference facility. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kenya | Only one prison health facility had a resident doctor. (references) |
Brazil | In May a rebellion occurred at the Tatuape FEBEM facility. (references) | |
Guatemala | In the spring of 2000, a new maximum security facility opened. (references) | |
Minorities | Nigeria | The group alleged that the facility was located on land that had been obtained illegally. (references) |
Armenia | In practice the Mosque is open for prayers; however, it is not registered as a religious facility. (references) | |
Germany | Authorities convicted three perpetrators; a 24-year-old defendant was sentenced to life in prison, and two 16-year-old accomplices were sentenced to 9 years in a youth facility. (references) | |
Political Economy | RUSSIA | Given its strong international reserve situation, the government is not seeking a Stand-by facility. (references) |
JORDAN | However, with Jordan's accession to the WTO, it has committed to phase out this facility over a period of time. (references) | |
PAKISTAN | Security concerns also affect investment decisions, including the choice of facility location and area of operation. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Sub-project of Ukraine Enterprise Support Facility. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | The OPIC/Citibank African Trade Facility of USD 100 million is available. (references) | |
Australia | The first site selected was the Steel River Facility (Newcastle), near Sydney. (references) | |
Travel | Kenya | Kenya Telephone and Telegraph has discontinued its "collect call" facility. (references) |
Pakistan | Internet facility is currently available in all the major cities of Pakistan. (references) | |
Bahamas | Nassau's privately-owned Doctors Hospital is widely regarded as the best medical facility in The Bahamas. (references) | |
Women | Albania | An NGO maintains a shelter in Tirana for abused women, but the facility has the capacity to house only a few victims at a time. (references) |
Worker Rights | Croatia | Victims generally are detained at a Zagreb detention facility on immigration violations. (references) |
China | Between 1997 and year's end, the Government allowed U.S. officials to conduct only one visit to a prison labor facility. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Troops might be moved with great facility in war, with cannon and every kind of munition, and in either direction. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | I allude to such as have for their object the improvement of our harbors, the removal of partial and temporary obstructions in our navigable rivers, for the facility and security of our foreign commerce. |
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| "Facility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.77% of the time. "Facility" is used about 2,167 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.77% | 2,162 | 4,039 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.09% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,167 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "facility": accelerated pavement test facility ♦ advice facility ♦ athletic facility ♦ cafeteria facility ♦ carrier facility assignment ♦ cold store facility ♦ docking facility ♦ environmental logic facility ♦ extended care facility ♦ facility accepted message ♦ facility chart ♦ Facility Design and Construction ♦ facility failure ♦ facility message ♦ Facility Regulation and Control ♦ facility reliability ♦ facility request message ♦ fixed medical treatment facility ♦ health facility ♦ Health Facility Administrators ♦ Health Facility Closure ♦ Health Facility Environment ♦ Health Facility Merger ♦ Health Facility Moving ♦ Health Facility Planning ♦ Health Facility Size ♦ host Command Facility ♦ information Engineering Facility ♦ interactive System Productivity Facility ♦ intermediate network facility ♦ laundering facility ♦ leased facility ♦ lisp Extended Algebraic Facility ♦ local maintenance facility ♦ multioption facility ♦ note issuance facility ♦ originating medical facility ♦ penal facility ♦ print Services Facility ♦ radio facility chart ♦ recreation facility ♦ recreational facility ♦ research facility ♦ resource Access Control Facility ♦ Special Facility for Africa ♦ standby facility ♦ transaction Processing Facility ♦ vibration facility ♦ virtual call facility. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "facility": (N)-facility, cash-facility, shared-facility. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "facility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkathtësi (adroitness, agility, cleverness, craftiness, cunning, deftness, dexterity, jugglery, legerity, lubricity, refractoriness, resourcefulness, sagacity, skill, smartness), lehtësi (airiness, boon, convenience, ease, easiness, ethereality, Favor, favour, lightness), aftësi (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, bent, capability, capacity, disposition, faculty, flair, gift, hand, knack, know how, neatness, power, proficiency, qualification, science, skill, talent, value). (various references) | |
Arabic | موهبة (aptitude, capability, endowment, flair, genius, gift, instinct, knack, skill, talent, vocation), وسيلة (appliance, connection, connexion, contrivance, device, engine, expedience, expediency, expedient, in a way, instrument, instrumentation, intermediary, makeshift, mean, measure, modality, resource, string, tactic, twist), تسهيل (aperient, making easy), سهولة (breeze, ease, easiness, freedom, perspicacity, readiness), براعة (address, artfulness, artifice, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dexterity, finesse, hand, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastery, proficiency, science, skill, skillfulness, sleight of hand, tact, trick, workmanship). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сръчност (accomplishment, address, agility, deftness, dexterity, hand, handicraft, knack, readiness, skill, technic, technique), умение (ability, accomplishment, address, art, artifice, cleverness, faculty, know how, proficiency, quality, savoir faire, science, skill, sleight, workmanship), гъвкавост (elasticity, flexibility, give, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, resilience, resiliency, suppleness, versatility), леснота (lightness, simplicity), лекота (ease, easiness, fluidity, gentleness, levity, lightness, readiness), податливост (accessibility, amenability, ductility, flexibility, malleability, manageability, pliability, pliancy, squeezability, susceptibility). (various references) | |
Chinese | 设施 (Facilities, INST, installation). (various references) | |
Czech | zařízení (alarm, apparatus, appliance, appointment, arrangement, contraption, contrivance, device, equipment, facilities, furnishing, gadget, installation, institution, unit), vybavení (appointments, equipage, equipment, fitting, outfit, paraphernalia), snadnost (ease, easiness), obratnost (adroitness, deftness, dexterity, finesse, readiness), možnost (choice, contingency, course, eventuality, eventually, opportunity, possibility, potentiality, scope), lehkost (ease, lightness, thinness), dovednost (accomplishment, art, craft, cunning, finesse, knack, proficiency, science, skill). (various references) | |
Danish | facilitet, driftsanlaeg (installation, physical plant, plant), driftsanlæg, anlaeg (aptitude, feeding, fence, installation, physical plant, plant). (various references) | |
Dutch | faciliteit (facilities, feature). (various references) | |
Finnish | laitos (establishment, institute, institution, plant), helppous (ease, easiness). (various references) | |
French | facilité. (various references) | |
German | leichtigkeit (ease, easiness, facileness, flimsiness, lightness, mildness, weightlessness), Möglichkeit (chance, contingency, eventuality, feasibility, likelihood, means, occasion, opening, opportunity, option, possibility, potentiality), Gelegenheit (chance, event, instance, occasion, occurence, opportunity, window). (various references) | |
Greek | ευκολία (commodity, convenience, ease, easiness), ευχέρεια (fluency, knack). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קלות (ease, easiness, lightness, simplicity, slightly), אמצעי (aid, expedient, implement, indirectly, mean, means, measure, median, medium, mid, middle, organ, resort, resource, resources, step, steppingstone, tool), זריזות (agility, alertness, dexterity, expedition, knack, liveliness, nimbleness, pep, pertness, quickness, skill), כשרון (ability, aptitude, capability, competence, endowment, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tehetség (ability, accomplishment, aptitude, art, capacity, disposition, dower, endowment, faculty, genious, gift, talent, vein, vocation), könnyedség (airiness, ease, flippancy, fluency, gracefulness, jauntiness, readiness), adottság (aptitude, aptness, capability, dower, endowment, makings, talent), könnyűség (easiness, effortlessness, flimsiness, levity), képesség (ability, absorptivity, accomplishment, attainments, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, dower, faculty, genious, gift, reach, talent). (various references) | |
Indonesian | fasilitas (facilities), kesempatan (chance, ocassion, opportunity), kemudahan (rashness), kecakapan (faculty, qualification, skill). (various references) | |
Italian | facilitazione (facilitation), facilità (easiness, fluency, lightness, readiness), FAC, struttura (body, build, fabric, frame, framework, making, shell, structure, texture), servizi (facilities, restrooms, service), mezzi (mean, means, money, wherewithal), installazione (installation, setting), impianto (establishment, fixture, framework, implant, implantation, installation, machinery, plant, rig, system), elemento di servizio (element of service), attrezzature, attrezzatura (equipment, outfit, rig, rigging, tackle), assistenze (assistances), area dell'azienda, agevolazione (concession, facilitation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 施設 (army engineer, establishment, institution). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ファシリテイ , ファシリティー , ファシリティ , しせつ (delegate, embassy, engineer, envoy, establishment, institution, mission, personal opinion, private, the teacher's theory), きかん (already published, boiler, engine, feedback, flagship, gauge, hunger and cold, instrument, key, mainstay, mechanism, mirror, nucleus, organ, paragon, pattern, period, quarterly, repatriation, return, returning to one'sship, term, trachea, wonderful sight, your letter), べん (braid, convenience, counter for whipping, crown, dialect, discrimination, evacuation, excreta, petal, speech, stools, valve), うでまえ (ability, skill), えいぞうぶつ (building). (various references) | |
Korean | 시설 (Facilities, POOL). (various references) | |
Manx | so-lhoobaght (adaptability, buoyancy, elasticity, flexibility, malleability, plasticity, pliability). (various references) | |
Norwegian | letthet (ease). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acilityfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | facilidade (ease, easiness, readiness). (various references) | |
Romanian | facilitate (ease), uşurinţã (carelessness, ease, easiness, flimsiness, frivolity, glibness, levity, light-mindedness, rashness, readiness, recklessness, wantonness), uşurime, talent (ability, accomplishments, aptitude, capability, dower, dowry, endowment, faculty, felicity, genius, gift, ingenuity, knack, part, skill, talent, turn, twist), avantaje (spoil), înlesniri. (various references) | |
Russian | средство;предприятие;ресурсы;услуги, средства обслуживания, удобства (improvements), способность (ability, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, competence, faculty, flair, gift, power, skills and talents), легкость (ease, easiness, ethereality, flimsiness, legerity, lightness, sheerness), линия связи (circuit, communications links, flowline, link). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veština (ability, art, attainment, cleverness, craft, cunning, excellence, knack, know how, masterliness, skill, subtlety, technique, wizardry, workmanship), sposobnost (ability, acumen, aptitude, aptness, capability, capacity, competence, competency, faculty, fitness, talent, touch), postrojenja (facilities), lakoća (easiness, legerity, levitation, levity, lightness), instalacije. (various references) | |
Spanish | facilidad (bent, ease, easiness, freedom, lightness). (various references) | |
Swedish | flyhänthet (deftness, quickness), flinkhet (deftness, legerity), facilitet, lätthet (ease, easiness, fragility, lightness, mildness, simplicity), hjälpmedel (accommodation, aid, appliance, expedient, facilities, gadget, subsidiary, tool, util). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งอำนวยความสะดวก. (various references) | |
Turkish | fırsat (break, chance, occasion, opening, opportunity, show, turn), yetenek (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, aptitude, aptness, artistry, bent, caliber, calibre, capability, capacity, competence, competency, disposition, dower, dowry, efficiency, faculty, fitness, flair, gift, hand, instinct, parts, power, prerogative, quality, skill, talent, vocation), vasıta (agency, instrumentality, medium, resource, stepping stone, vehicle), ustalık (art, artfulness, craftsmanship, deftness, dexterity, expertness, feat, finesse, hand, handiness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, masterliness, mastership, mastery, perfection, proficiency, skill, sleight, subtility, subtlety, virtuosity, wizardry, workmanship), tesis (foundation, institution, plant, service area, tablishment, works), rahatlık (boon, comfort, cosiness, ease, easiness, leisureliness), olanak (handle, possibility, potentiality, scope, the possible), kolaylık (airiness, convenience, ease, easiness, simplicity, straightforwardness), imkân (chance, feasibility, handle, possibility, potentiality, the possible), araç (agent, appliance, implement, instrument, means, medium, organ, tool, vehicle, vehicular). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уміння (art, cleverness, competence, competency, know how, proficiency), здатність (ability, capability, flair, skill, sufficiency), легкість (airiness, easiness, legerity, lightness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự trôi chảy sự hoạt bát tài khéo léo tính dễ dãi, phương tiện dễ dàng sự dễ dàng, điều kiện thuận lợi. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhwyddineb (ease), hwylustod (convenience, ease). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facilitate. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Facility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: facelet, facili, facilit, facilite, facilito, facilty, faclity, facuilty, falicity, fascility, focality, Macavity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "facility" (pronounced fusi"lutē) |
| 6 | -s i" l u t ē | docility. |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | acceptability, accessibility, ability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, irresponsibility, irritability, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, flammability, flexibility, fragility, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, legality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, laity, laxity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-i-l-t-y" | |
-2 letters: citify, italic. | |
-3 letters: calif, cilia, clift, fatly, fitly, icily, iliac, laity, licit, litai, lytic, tical. | |
-4 letters: acyl, alif, alit, calf, city, clay, clit, fact, fail, fiat, fila, flat, flay, flic, flit, ilia, lacy, laic, lati, lift, tail, talc, tali. | |
-5 letters: act, aft, ail, ait, alt, cat, cay, fat, fay, fil, fit, fly, icy, lac. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-i-l-t-y" | |
+2 letters: flaccidity. | |
+3 letters: certifiably, factitively, farcicality, fictionally. | |
+4 letters: afflictively, artificially, beatifically, facilitatory, factitiously, fictionality, frictionally, pontifically, terrifically. | |
+5 letters: affectability, artificiality, codifiability, fascinatingly, fascistically, faunistically, floristically, functionality, magnificently, significantly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Abbreviations 19. Acronyms 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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