EASINESS

n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

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

4.
n.

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

5.
n.

Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.


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