from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
easiness
n 1: a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of
tension or worry; "the easiness we feel when sleeping"
[syn: {easiness}, {relaxation}]
2: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose
through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into
containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of
the deed held her back" [syn: {ease}, {easiness},
{simplicity}, {simpleness}] [ant: {difficultness},
{difficulty}]
3: the quality of being easy in behavior or style; "there was an
easiness between them"; "a natural easiness of manner"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Easiness \Eas"i*ness\, n.
1. The state or condition of being easy; freedom from
distress; rest.
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2. Freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the easiness of a task.
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3. Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield
without opposition; unconcernedness.
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Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your
easiness. --South.
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4. Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of
style, manner, etc.
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With painful care, but seeming easiness.
--Roscommon.
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5. Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.
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