EASEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does easement mean? 

• EASEMENT (noun)
  The noun EASEMENT has 2 senses:

1. (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)

2. the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

  Familiarity information: EASEMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("easement" is a kind of...):

exclusive right; perquisite; prerogative; privilege (a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "easement"):

public easement (any easement enjoyed by the public in general (as the public's right to use public streets))

right of way (the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

alleviation; easement; easing; relief

Context example:

he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain

Hypernyms ("easement" is a kind of...):

decrease; diminution; reduction; step-down (the act of decreasing or reducing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "easement"):

spasmolysis (the relaxation or relief of muscle spasms)

detente (the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations))

palliation (easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause)

liberalisation; liberalization; relaxation (the act of making less strict)

decompressing; decompression (relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure))

Derivation:

ease (lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate)

ease (lessen the intensity of or calm)

 Context examples 

She knew only that she was leaning against him and that the easement and soothing rest were very good.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Easement and content came into their faces.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was a pain and an unrest; and it received easement only by the touch of the new god's presence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And there were easements and satisfactions.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then she lost herself in drowsy contemplation of the soothing balm of his strength: Life poured from the ends of his fingers, driving the pain before it, or so it seemed to her, until with the easement of pain, she fell asleep and he stole away.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The good stands for all things that bring easement and satisfaction and surcease from pain.

(White Fang, by Jack London)