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easiness|ˈiːzɪnɪs|
[f. easy + -ness.]
The state or quality of being easy (in any of its senses).
1. Freedom from discomfort or anxiety.
1691Ray Creation, The rest and easiness we enjoy when asleep.
2. The quality of being easy in attitude, behaviour, style, etc.
1567Drant Horace's De Arte Poet. A j, I followe flowinge easynes, my style is clearely marde. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 343 Her Easiness of Behaviour makes him secure of acceptance. a1791Wesley Wks. (1830) XIII. 378 Perspicuity, purity, propriety, strength and easiness, constitute a good style. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 551 Virgil..wanting much of that natural easiness of wit that Ovid had.
3. Indolence, carelessness, indifference.
1581Sidney Def. Poesie (Arb.) 49 They are full of very idle easines. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 75. 1699 T. C[ockman] Tully's Offices (1706) 207 Ruin'd by his Easiness and Neglect. 1825Houlston Tracts I. xxx. 3 There was no reason for deferring it, but only just his easiness.
4. The quality of not being difficult or burdensome; facility.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. lvii. (1495) 172 Many and dyuerse boones ben in the body and that for..easynesse of mouynge. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 727 No man..should with too much easinesse be promoted without witnesses. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. iv. 166 Refraine to night And that shall lend a kinde of easinesse To the next abstinence. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 320 The easinesse of the purchase makes the profit so much the greater. 1800Stuart in Wellington's Disp. (1877) 575 Besides easiness of conquest, they would find wealth.
5. The quality of not being harsh or exacting; gentleness, indulgence, kindness.
1483Vulg. abs Terentio 20 a, To holde chylder vndir wyth shame & gentillnes sofnes or esynes. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. iv. i, Do you raise mirth out of my easiness? 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xliv. 347 The Easinesse of our Saviour, in bearing with offences, etc. 1748Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 304 That easiness of temper, which..is expressed by the word good-humour. 1862Trench Mirac. xxiii. 344 Behind a seeming severity lurks the real love, while under the mask of greater easiness selfishness lies hid.
†6. The quality of being easily influenced; in bad sense, credulity; want of firmness, fickleness.
a1619Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 35 The King..working vpon the easinesse of his youth, and ambition. 1674Ch. & Court of Rome 12 Persons..who practised upon their easiness. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 496 The Envy and Spight of the Chief Priests and Pharisees, The Easiness and Fury of the Common People. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II, (1847) III. vii. 174 All made advantage of English easiness and dissipation. |