easiness

Noun
Synonyms: relaxationeasesimplicitysimpleness

Open English WordNet

Noun (3)

  1. a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry“the easiness we feel when sleeping”Synonyms: relaxationType of tranquillity, tranquilityKinds languor, dreaminess
  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”Synonyms: easesimplicitysimplenessType of qualityKinds effortlessness, painlessnessAttribute of easy
  3. the quality of being easy in behavior or style“there was an easiness between them”“a natural easiness of manner”Type of behavior, behaviour

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Eas′i·ness noun

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.— Robert South

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

With painful care, but seeming easiness.— Wentworth Dillon, Lord Roscommon

5. Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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