Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being easeful, or the quality of promoting ease and tranquillity.
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- noun State of being easeful, or a quality of promoting ease and
tranquillity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Meditation enables us to stop trying, to let go of the story, the dramas, our stressed mind, and to discover an inner easefulness.
Ed and Deb Shapiro: The Greatest Gift You Can Give Your Stress! 2010
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Meditation enables us to stop trying, to let go of the story, the dramas, our stressed mind, and to discover an inner easefulness.
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Begin to relax as you breathe, letting go of tension on the out breath, breathing in easefulness on the in breath.
Ed and Deb Shapiro: Learn To Sleep The Way A Yogi Does! 2010
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Mr. Knight, however, did not seem at all incommoded by his feelings, and he said with light easefulness:
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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The niceties of convention are quickly dulled by fatigue, and it is only the easefulness of modern life that makes the coarser little realities of human nature seem shocking.
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Mr. Knight, however, did not seem at all incommoded by his feelings, and he said with light easefulness:
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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Africa were eager to recross the Pyrenees or the Mediterranean, and regain their own lovely climate, and their life of easefulness that never palled.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830
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