facileness

Variant of facile

adjective

  1. not hard to do or achieve; easy
  2. acting, working, or done easily, or in a quick, smooth way; fluent; ready: a facile wit
  3. using or showing little effort and not sincere or profound; superficial: a facile solution, facile emotions
  4. Now Rare easy to influence or persuade; affable

Origin: Fr < L facilis < facere, do

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