facilitation
Americannoun
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the act or process of facilitating.
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Physiology. the lowering of resistance in a neural pathway to an impulse, resulting from previous or simultaneous stimulation.
noun
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the act or process of facilitating
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physiol the increased ease of transmission of impulses in a nerve fibre, caused by prior excitation
Etymology
Origin of facilitation
First recorded in 1610–20; facilitate + -ion
Explanation
Use the noun facilitation to describe helping, improving, or making something easier, like the newly widened staircase and hall designed for the facilitation of moving crowds through the museum. The Latin word for "easy," is facilis. You can see this origin in facilitation, which means "the act of making something easier." If you volunteer to help with the facilitation of enrolling new students at a school, you might hand by the door, handing out forms and directing families to the main office. You make the new people's experience better, which is another meaning of facilitation, improvement.
Vocabulary lists containing facilitation
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Example Sentences
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The rise in arrivals was fueled in part by increased international air capacity, visa facilitation in many nations and "robust" demand from key tourism markets.
From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026
“Now we see the need shifting to long-term effects and recovery plans, providing step-by-step facilitation of how to get their lives back on track.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025
It exhibits synaptic plasticity in response to light intensity, showing synaptic features such as paired-pulse facilitation and paired-pulse depression.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
While police raids do happen, the facilitation of people-smuggling is not technically illegal in Germany if it is to a third country outside of the EU, which the UK now is after Brexit.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024
And their enfranchisement unavoidably led to the disfranchisement of the smaller boroughs, unless the House of Commons were to be enlarged to a number which was not likely to tend to the facilitation of business.
From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke
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