easement
- noun
- /ˈiːzmənt/
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- The soothing music provided a great sense of easement and helped her relax after a stressful day.
Examples
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Following the 2007-08 global financial crisis, interest rates in the United States dropped to historic lows as a result of the Fed's monetary policy of easement, as well as its numerous stimulus programs.
Academic text (2017) -
I give easement now to thee, Cadi Forbes, that you might live a long and full life.
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Intimacy at thirty thousand feet clearly provided no easement into the billionaire's good books.
Fiction book (1990) -
It just seems these worries are harder to eradicate than the weeds in my easement.
Blog text (24) -
Just over one-third of the respondents (42%) lived on the easement property full time, 18% used their land as a weekend residence, and 40% were absentee landowners.
Academic text (2016) -
Nor did he bother to take time to wonder then how his uncle (obviously Edmonds had told him) happened to know about it because he was already counting rapidly backward; he thought with a sense of vindication, easement, triumph almost: she had just died then.
Fiction book (1999) -
This section provides the results of the analyses conducted to address our first two hypotheses related to differences in property rights and social responsibility orientations between conservation easement and noneasement landowners.
Academic text (2016) -
After taking the medication, she felt a noticeable easement of her headaches.
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He used the heat pad for easement from his lower back pain during the cold winter.
Synonyms
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1.0
A feeling of comfort when pain or worry goes away
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5.2
A lessening of pain, suffering, or a problem
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4.0
A change that makes something less strong or difficult
A feeling of relief when pain or worry becomes less
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
A right for more than one person to use part of another person's land for access or utilities
How Relieved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word easement comes from ease 'comfort' or 'to make less painful' and the ending -ment. So an easement can mean the relief you feel when pain or worry becomes less.