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Easiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Freedom from difficulty; ease.

2. Easiness and difficulty are relative terms.

3. Flexibility; readiness to comply; prompt compliance; a yielding or disposition to yield without opposition or reluctance.

4. Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness

5. So we say, a man's easiness of temper is remarkable.

6. Freedom from stiffness, constraint, effort or formality; applied to manners or to the style of writing.

7. Rest; tranquillity; ease; freedom from pain.

8. Freedom from shaking or jolting, as of a moving vehicle.

9. Softness; as the easiness of a seat.

Easiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

2. Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

3. Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.

4. Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.

5. Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

Facility Roget’s Thesaurus §705

N. facility, ease, easiness, capability, feasibility, flexibility, pliancy, smoothness, plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing, mere child's play, holiday task, cinch, smooth water, fair wind, smooth royal road, clear coast, clear stage, tabula rasa, full play, disencumbrance, disentanglement, deoppilation|, permission, simplicity, lack of complication

V. be easy, go on smoothly, run smoothly, have full play, go on all fours, run on all fours, obey the helm, work well, flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide, see one's way, have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands, walk over the course, win at a canter, make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of, be at home in, make it look easy, do it with one's eyes closed, do it in one's sleep, render easy, facilitate, smooth, ease, popularize, lighten, lighten the labor, free, clear, disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle, disengage, deobstruct, unclog, extricate, unravel, untie the knot, cut the knot, disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from, deoppilate|, humor, lubricate, relieve, leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open, give the reins to, give full play, give full swing, make way for, open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road, pave the way, bridge over, permit

Adj. easy, facile, feasible, easily managed, easily accomplished, within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the million, open to, manageable, wieldy, towardly, tractable, submissive, yielding, ductile, suant, pliant, glib, slippery, smooth, on friction wheels, on velvet, unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered, disembarrassed, exonerated, unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled, unrestrained, at ease, light, at home with, quite at home, in one's element, in smooth water, skillful, accustomed

Adv. easily, readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms, single-handed

Phr. touch and go, 2, active antagonism