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noun

Easiness n.

The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

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

Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness. "Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness."

Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; said of style, manner, etc. "With painful care, but seeming easiness."

Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

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Etymology of 'Easiness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Easiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... never admits of a divorce but upon a strict inquiry made, both by the senators and their wives, into the grounds upon which it is desired, and even when they are satisfied concerning the reasons of it they go on but slowly, for they imagine that too great easiness in granting leave for new marriages would very much shake the kindness of married people. They punish severely those that defile the marriage bed; if both parties are married they are divorced, and ...

— Utopia • Thomas More

... Macaulay's only sin in the same unfortunate direction. He too frequently resorts to vulgar gaudiness. For example, there is in one place a certain description of an alleged practice of Addison's. Swift had said of Esther Johnson that 'whether from easiness in general, or from her indifference to persons, or from her despair of mending them, or from the same practice which she most liked in Mr. Addison, I cannot determine; but when she saw any of the company very warm in a wrong opinion, she was more inclined to ...

— Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) - Essay 4: Macaulay • John Morley

... land, but its characteristic features, as distinguished from Judea, are the easiness of approach through open gateways among the hills, and the fertility of the broad vales and level plains which lie between them. The Kingdom of Israel, in its brief season of prosperity, was richer, more luxurious, and weaker than the Kingdom of Judah. The poet Isaiah touched ...

— Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land - Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit • Henry Van Dyke

... formerly the Lady Michal M'Intosh, a penniless beauty, with the pride of a Scotchwoman and the temper of a Hervey. Her enemies said that my lady had tripped in the merry days of George the Second, and now made up for past easiness by present hardness. Her friends—but it must be confessed her ...

— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman

... it made the Tower of Babel seem like "going into the silence." Everybody in that room talked to me at once. In my frantic boast and foolish word about the easiness of Spanish it had never occurred to me that people would talk to me! If the fiends had only held their tongues and let me ask them to have the kindness to do me the favor to show me which way ...

— Jane Journeys On • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

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