facilitation vs facilitate

facilitation is a noun but facilitate is not a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
facilitation	Yes	No	No	No
facilitate	No	No	Yes	No

facilitation (noun)	facilitate (noun)
act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something
(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
the condition of being made easy (or easier)

facilitation (verb)	facilitate (verb)
	make easier
	increase the likelihood of (a response)
	be of use