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English Dictionary: easiness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
easiness
n
  1. a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry; "the easiness we feel when sleeping"
    Synonym(s): easiness, relaxation
  2. 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"
    Synonym(s): ease, easiness, simplicity, simpleness
    Antonym(s): difficultness, difficulty
  3. the quality of being easy in behavior or style; "there was an easiness between them"; "a natural easiness of manner"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Easiness \Eas"i*ness\, n.
      1. The state or condition of being easy; freedom from
            distress; rest.
  
      2. Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.
  
      3. Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield
            without opposition; unconcernedness.
  
                     Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your
                     easiness.                                          --South.
  
      4. Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of
            style, manner, etc.
  
                     With painful care, but seeming easiness.
                                                                              --Roscommon.
  
      5. Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.
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