different between easiness vs eariness

English

Etymology

From easy +? -ness

Noun

easiness (usually uncountable, plural easinesses)

1. Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
2. Looseness or pliance, 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.
      • 1604, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene i, l. 68:

        Custome hath made it in him a propertie of easines.

   4. Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
      • 1604, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene iv, l. 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.

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "easiness, n."

English

Alternative forms

• eiryness (obsolete)

Etymology

eary +? -ness. Compare eeriness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????n?s/
• Homophone: eeriness

Noun

eariness (uncountable)

1. fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural
   • 1839, Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of Grasmere (published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine)

     The sensation of eariness, as twilight came on.