EFFORTLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does effortlessness mean? 

• EFFORTLESSNESS (noun)
  The noun EFFORTLESSNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of requiring little effort

  Familiarity information: EFFORTLESSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EFFORTLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of requiring little effort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice

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

ease; easiness; simpleness; simplicity (freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort)

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

facility; readiness (a natural effortlessness)

smoothness (the quality of being free from errors or interruptions)

Antonym:

effortfulness (the quality of requiring deliberate effort)

Derivation:

effortless (not showing effort or strain)

effortless (requiring or apparently requiring no effort)