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UK
/ˈiːzɪnəs/
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NOUN
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the quality of being easy in behavior or style
a natural easiness of manner
there was an easiness between them -
freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
the very easiness of the deed held her back
they put it into containers for ease of transportation
he rose through the ranks with apparent ease -
a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
the easiness we feel when sleeping
How To Use easiness In A Sentence
- An uneasiness in a horizontal posture attends it, but no disposition to incurvate the body forward. Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart
- The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
- To do so would imply a certain easiness between them.
- The time was just before daybreak, an hour when the uneasiness of the air affected trees and animals, and made even men-sleepers turn over sighingly. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- The skilled reader is not dependent on the adventitious aids of easiness or brightness; he is no longer, for instance, dependent upon plot for his enjoyment of fiction, or upon what is called 'actuality' or 'incident', or mere verisimilitude of description. 2010 January 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
- But there's a kind of queasiness that these are unnatural in some way. Nick Bostrom on our biggest problems
- It seems that the source of Herman's queasiness is rooted in concerns about the property market in Southern Europe, many having holiday homes in the Med; growing commentary on the decline of Southern Europe's economies; a growing crescendo of remarks from Southern Eurpean politicians that are perceived as threatening the independence of the European Central Bank, a sine qua non for Germans to give up the Deutschmark; and a sudden ramping up of German inflation to an official 8.1% (which, if our own experience is anything to go by significantly underplays the reality). Archive 2008-06-08
- In fact, this oiliness, or greasiness, as I was later to learn, was probably the most salient expression of his personality. Chapter 2
- Are you seeing any sort of use the word queasiness amongst your retail partners when you look at the futures orders being so strong? Retail Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
- She felt a slight queasiness in the mornings during the first months of pregnancy.