Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EAS'I-NESS, n.

1. Freedom from difficulty; ease. Easiness and difficulty are relative terms. Tillotson.
2. Flexibility; readiness to comply; prompt compliance; a yielding or disposition to yield without opposition or reluctance. Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness. South. So we say, a man's easiness of temper is remarkable.
3. Freedom from stiffness, constraint, effort or formality; applied to manners or to the style of writing. Roscommon.
4. Rest; tranquillity; ease; freedom from pain. Ray.
5. Freedom from shaking or jolting, as of a moving vehicle.
6. Softness; as, the easiness of a seat.