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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