facilitation

/fəˈsɪləˌteɪʃən/

Other forms: facilitations

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.

Definitions of facilitation

1. noun

   act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
   type of:

   aid, assist, assistance, help

   the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
2. noun

   the condition of being made easy (or easier)
   “social facilitation is an adaptive condition”

   type of:

   condition, status

   a state at a particular time
3. noun

   (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential
   type of:

   organic phenomenon

   (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals