different between facilitation vs convenience

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

facilitation (countable and uncountable, plural facilitations)

1. The act of facilitating or making easy.
2. (physiology) The process of synapses becoming more capable of transmitting the same type of signal each time certain types of sensory signals pass through sequences of these synapses.

Translations

French

Etymology

faciliter +? -ation

Pronunciation

Noun

facilitation f (plural facilitations)

1. facilitation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convenientia, from conveniens (“suitable”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”). Doublet of convenance.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?vi?n??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?vinj?ns/
• Hyphenation: con?ve?nience

Noun

convenience (countable and uncountable, plural conveniences)

1. The quality of being convenient.

   Synonym: amenity
2. Any object that makes life more convenient; a helpful item.
3. A convenient time.

4. (chiefly Britain) Ellipsis of public convenience: a public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

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Verb

convenience (third-person singular simple present conveniences, present participle conveniencing, simple past and past participle convenienced)

1. To make convenient

   These are equally viable times and I propose we alternate between the two times in order to convenience as many people as possible.

Further reading

• convenience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• convenience at OneLook Dictionary Search