easiness

English

Etymology

From easy +‎ -ness

Noun

easiness (usually uncountable, plural easinesses)

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

the quality of being easy

• Bulgarian: лекота (bg) f (lekota), леснина (bg) f (lesnina)
• Danish: lethed c, enkelhed c
• Dutch: gemakkelijkheid (nl) f
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• German: Leichtigkeit (de) f
• Russian: лёгкость (ru) f (ljóxkostʹ)
• Spanish: facilidad (es) f
• Turkish: kolaylık (tr)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "easiness, n."