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Adequacy vs Enoughness - What's the difference?

adequacy | enoughness |

As nouns the difference between adequacy and enoughness

is that adequacy is the quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs while enoughness is the state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.

adequacy

English

Noun

(adequacies)
  • The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.
    • His zeal is, of course, unquestionable; his adequacy, however, I doubt.

    enoughness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.
  • *2002 , Ira Chernus, Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace :
    • Secretary of State Dulles pointed out that the report's aim was not "scaring our people but giving them a realistic picture of the dilemma in which they would find themselves" when the Soviet Union as well as the United States had attained "enoughness ."
  • * 2003 , Marcia Menter, The office sutras: exercises for your soul at work (page 34)
    • But all of us have deep beliefs about our own enoughness , often stemming from childhood...
  • *2008 , Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics :
    • We have tried to convince you that the problem, worry, or puzzle that arises in connection with readiness or enoughness , if there is one, is metaphysical, and not semantic; [...]
  • *2008 , Anable Shilson Thomas, Live simply :
    • The fourth and last principle is that of the Sabbath - the feast of enoughness .

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