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

The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.

The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness. Shak.

Queasiness. [Obs.]

The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence. [Obs.] Joye.

Easiness of disposition. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton.

Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. [Obs.] When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. James Byrne.

Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings. Bp. Hall.

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. Shak. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent. Hallam

The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.

Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet. [Obs.] So all that night they passed in great disease. Spenser. To shield thee from diseases of the world. Shak.

Causing uneasiness. [Obs.] Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon.

Uneasiness; inconvenience. [Obs.] Bacon.

igent creatures. I. Taylor. The disparity of numbers was not such as ought to cause any uneasiness. Macaulay.

The feeling of one who is displeased; irritation or uneasiness of the mind, occasioned by anything that counteracts desire or command, or which opposes justice or a sense of propriety; disapprobation; dislike; dissatisfaction; disfavor; indignation. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot di…