different between penchant vs facility

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendic?re, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang, to lean”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?n??n/, [?p?????]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?nt???nt/

Noun

penchant (countable and uncountable, plural penchants)

1. Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
   • 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.

   He has a penchant for fine wine.

2. (card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
3. (card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Synonyms

• desire, see also Thesaurus:predilection

Related terms

Translations

French

Noun

penchant m (plural penchants)

1. penchant

Verb

penchant

1. present participle of pencher

Further reading

• “penchant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle French facilité, and its source, Latin facilit?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??s?l?ti/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

facility (countable and uncountable, plural facilities)

1. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity. [from 16th c.]
2. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. [from 16th c.]

   The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

3. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. [from 19th c.]

   Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
4. An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
5. (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet. [from 20th c.]
6. (Scotland, law) A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
7. (dated) Affability.

Derived terms

• correctional facility

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