facilidad
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin facilitātem (“ease, easiness”), from facilis (“doable, easy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /faθiliˈdad/ [fa.θi.liˈð̞að̞]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /fasiliˈdad/ [fa.si.liˈð̞að̞]
- Rhymes: -ad
- Syllabification: fa‧ci‧li‧dad
Noun
facilidad f (plural facilidades)
- ease (skill, facility)
- Antonym: dificultad
- 2012, Gema Bonnín, La Dama y el Dragón, Destino, →ISBN, page 148:
- Las facilidades sólo consiguen que las dificultades te parezcan mayores.
- The ease only makes the difficulties seem bigger.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “facilidad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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