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effortlessness

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ef·fort·less  (frt-ls)
adj.
Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy.

effort·less·ly adv.
effort·less·ness n.
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Noun1.effortlessness - the quality of requiring little effort; "such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice"
ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity - freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of the deed held her back"
facility, readiness - a natural effortlessness; "they conversed with great facility"; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen
smoothness - the quality of being free from errors or interruptions; "the five-speed manual gearbox is smoothness personified"
effortfulness - the quality of requiring deliberate effort

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Though Potter sees that ideal as completely overwritten by a new form of male narcissism brought about largely through a gay male aesthetic of the 1980s, I would argue that effortlessness still holds as a compelling ideal for heteronormative hegemonic masculinity.
His effortlessness is easily mistaken for lack of effort, the mystery enhanced by his caution amid constant injuries.
I thought of myself as like the jazz musician: someone who practices and practices and practices in order to be able to invent and to make his art look effortlessness and graceful" (Schappell 111).
 
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