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easiness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun easiness has 3 senses
- easiness(n = noun.feeling) relaxation - a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry; "the easiness we feel when sleeping" is a kind of quietness, quietude, tranquility, tranquillity
- easiness(n = noun.attribute) ease, simpleness, simplicity - 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" has particulars: effortlessness
- easiness(n = noun.act) Array - the quality of being easy in behavior or style; "there was an easiness between them"; "a natural easiness of manner" is a kind of behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings
has particulars: dreaminess, languor
Derived form adjective easy3
is a kind of quality
Derived forms adjective easy1, adjective easy8, adjective easy2
CIDE DICTIONARY
easiness, n.
- The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest. [1913 Webster]
- Freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the easiness of a task. [1913 Webster]
- Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness. [1913 Webster]"Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness." [1913 Webster]
- Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc. [1913 Webster]"With painful care, but seeming easiness." [1913 Webster]
- Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
easiness
Facility
N facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation, permission, simplicity, lack of complication, easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed, easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed, touch and go.
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