easiness

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

E'ASINESS, noun Freedom from difficulty; ease. Easiness and difficulty are relative terms. 1. Flexibility; readiness to comply; prompt compliance; a yielding or disposition to yield without opposition or reluctance. Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness So we say, a man's easiness of temper is remarkable. 2. Freedom from stiffness, constraint, effort or formality; applied to manners or to the style of writing. 3. Rest; tranquillity; ease; freedom from pain. 4. Freedom from shaking or jolting, as of a moving vehicle. 5. Softness; as the easiness of a seat.
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