easiness

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Noun

easiness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being easy in its various senses, particularly:
   1. Freedom from discomfort and worry: comfort.
   2. Freedom from inhibition and awkwardness: grace.
   3. Lack of concern or care: carelessness, indolence.
      • 1604, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene i, l. 68:

        Custome hath made it in him a propertie of easines.

   4. Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
      • 1604, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene iv, l. 153:

        ...Refraine night,
        And that shall lend a kind of easines
        To the next abstinence.

   5. Lack of harshness: gentleness, kindness.
   6. Lack of firm conviction: gullibility, credulity.

Translations

• French: facilité, simplicité
• German: Leichtigkeit
• Russian: лёгкость
• Spanish: facilidad

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