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1. Things that make you comfortable and at ease
   "all the conveniences of home";
   - comforts, creature comforts, amenities

1. The state of being suitable or opportune
   "chairs arranged for his own convenience"
    
2. The quality of being useful and convenient
   "they offered the convenience of an instalment plan"
    
3. A toilet that is available to the public
   - public toilet, comfort station [N. Amer], public convenience [Brit], public lavatory, restroom [N. Amer], toilet facility, wash room, ablution [S.Africa]
    
4. A device or control that is very useful for a particular job
   - appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gizmo [informal], gismo [informal], widget

See also: convenient, inconvenient

Type of: bathroom, bog [Brit, informal], bread and butter, can [N. Amer, informal], closet [archaic], comfort, comfortableness, device, facility, jacks [Ireland, informal], john [informal], keep, lav [informal], lavatory, livelihood, living, loo [Brit, informal], suitability, suitableness, support, sustenance, toilet, W.C. [Brit], water closet [Brit, archaic]

Antonym: inconvenience

Encyclopedia: Convenience