easiness

English edit

From easy +‎ -ness.

easiness (usually uncountable, plural easinesses)

Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
The state or quality of being easy (in 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.
  - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 68:
    Custome hath made it in him a propertie of easines.
4. Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
  - c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], line 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.
7. State or quality of being promiscuous, of consenting readily to sex; sluttiness.

the quality of being easy