Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Easiness"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Easiness \Eas"i*ness\, n.
1. The state or condition of being easy; freedom from
distress; rest.

2. Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

3. Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield
without opposition; unconcernedness.

Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your
easiness. --South.

4. Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of
style, manner, etc.

With painful care, but seeming easiness.
--Roscommon.

5. Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

easiness
n 1: a state of refreshing tranquility [syn: {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" [syn: {ease}, {simplicity}]
[ant: {difficulty}]


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