easiness

English

Etymology

From easy +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːzɪnəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

easiness (usually uncountable, plural easinesses)

1. Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
2. Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
3. 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.

Translations

the quality of being easy

• Arabic: سُهُولَة f (suhūla)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лекота (bg) f (lekota), леснина (bg) f (lesnina)
• Danish: lethed c, enkelhed c
• Dutch: gemakkelijkheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: facileco
• Finnish: helppous (fi)
• French: facilité (fr) f, simplicité (fr) f
• German: Leichtigkeit (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ῥᾳστώνη f (rhāistṓnē)

• Italian: facilità (it) f, semplicità (it) f
• Malayalam: എളുപ്പം (ml) (eḷuppaṁ)
• Manx: aashaght f, aashid m, neughoilleeid m, soccoilid m, buiggys m
• Old English: īeþnes f
• Ottoman Turkish: قولای (kolay)
• Polish: łatwość (pl) f
• Russian: лёгкость (ru) f (ljóxkostʹ)
• Spanish: facilidad (es) f
• Turkish: kolaylık (tr)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "easiness, n."