EASINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does easiness mean? 

• EASINESS (noun)
  The noun EASINESS has 3 senses:

1. a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry

2. freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort

3. the quality of being easy in behavior or style

  Familiarity information: EASINESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EASINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

easiness; relaxation

Context example:

the easiness we feel when sleeping

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

quietness; quietude; tranquility; tranquillity (a state of peace and quiet)

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

dreaminess; languor (a relaxed comfortable feeling)

Derivation:

easy (free from worry or anxiety)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ease; easiness; simpleness; simplicity

Context example:

the very easiness of the deed held her back

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)

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

effortlessness (the quality of requiring little effort)

Derivation:

easy (posing no difficulty; requiring little effort)

easy (marked by moderate steepness)

easy (not hurried or forced)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being easy in behavior or style

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

a natural easiness of manner

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

behavior; behaviour; conduct; doings (manner of acting or controlling yourself)

 Context examples 

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.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted no more than she had ever done; and much as she had always been disposed to like him, she could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice of his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Bingley intended it likewise, and sometimes made choice of his county; but as he was now provided with a good house and the liberty of a manor, it was doubtful to many of those who best knew the easiness of his temper, whether he might not spend the remainder of his days at Netherfield, and leave the next generation to purchase.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)