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Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
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easiness
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Word definitions for easiness in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The easiness of the wicket was further confirmed when Durham's bowlers also failed to extract any joy from it. ▪ To do so would imply a certain easiness between them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Easiness \Eas"i*ness\, 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, ...
Usage examples of easiness.
She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.
Tea-houses are of all grades, from the three-storied erections, gay with flags and lanterns, in the great cities and at places of popular resort, down to the road-side tea-house, as represented in the engraving, with three or four lounges of dark-coloured wood under its eaves, usually occupied by naked coolies in all attitudes of easiness and repose.
Bored or money-hungry, they had adapted their normal easiness about sex to the off worlders mercenary appetities.
Between the three of us, I am enheartened by the speed and easiness with which we repelled tonight’s attempt on the castle’s entrance.
Or—he had his contrary moments—it was this very freeness and easiness that had induced in him the desire to be stiff and starchy.
Not so much HMS Surprise but Surprise as a letter of marque, sailing where she pleased and when she pleased, carrying on her private and effective war against the enemy as she saw fit, with a ship's company of picked hands, some of them very old friends indeed, all of them thoroughpaced seamen With such men, with such a status, and with such a second in command as Tom Pullings, there had been an easiness that could never be found in a King's ship nothing approaching a democracy, God forbid, but an atmosphere that made the regular Navy seem formal, starched, severe, and .
Not so much HMS Surprise but Surprise as a letter of marque, sailing where she pleased and when she pleased, carrying on her private and effective war against the enemy as she saw fit, with a ship's company of picked hands, some of them very old friends indeed, all of them thoroughpaced seamen With such men, with such a status, and with such a second in command as Tom Pullings, there had been an easiness that could never be found in a King's ship nothing approaching a democracy, God forbid, but an atmosphere that made the regular Navy seem formal, starched .
Strange, too, how after so many months of easiness, all the villagers and especially their White Deer cousins had stopped looking at Adica.