facility vs finesse

facility

noun
  • Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. 

  • The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity. 

  • An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation. 

  • A toilet. 

  • The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. 

  • A condition of mental weakness less than idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest. 

finesse

noun
  • Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. 

  • An adroit manoeuvre. 

  • The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. 

  • In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over. 

verb
  • To play (a card) as a finesse. 

  • To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation. 

  • To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem. 

  • To attempt to win a trick by finessing. 

  • To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. 

How often have the words facility and finesse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )