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Adequacy   /ˈædəkwəsi/   Listen
Adequacy

noun
1.
The quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:.  Synonym: adequateness.  Antonym: inadequacy.
2.
The quality of being sufficient for the end in view.  Synonym: sufficiency.  Antonyms: insufficiency, inadequacy.






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"Adequacy" Quotes from Famous Books



... To check on the adequacy of the questionnaire survey, 108 test plantings in eastern Tennessee were visited and inspected. Forty of these had been reported on by mail; 68 had not. In general, the trees had been planted on the best sites available. Some were set out in farm orchards ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting • Northern Nut Growers Association

... control; adequacy of area; schools of various types, sufficient in number, and suited to meet the need for the supply of the various services required by the State; a common basis in elementary education; means of higher education open to all who can profit thereby; selection ...
— The Children: Some Educational Problems • Alexander Darroch

... They met but rarely at each other's houses and very seldom anywhere else, and Elaine for her part was never conscious of feeling that their opportunities for intercourse lacked anything in the way of adequacy. Suzette accorded her just that touch of patronage which a moderately well-off and immoderately dull girl will usually try to mete out to an acquaintance who is known to be wealthy and suspected of possessing brains. In return Elaine armed herself with that particular brand of mock ...
— The Unbearable Bassington • Saki

... of any belief in the providential government of the world and in the moral responsibility of man. Young men are apt to be far more logical than their elders. Older persons are taught by long experience to distrust the adequacy of their premisses: consciously or unconsciously they supplement the narrow conclusions of their logic by larger lessons learnt from human life or from their own heart. But generally speaking, the young man has no such distrust. ...
— Essays on "Supernatural Religion" • Joseph B. Lightfoot

... is only in a few instances—as in the description of King's College, Cambridge—that these sonnets possess force or charm enough to rank them high as poetry, yet they assume a certain value when we consider not so much their own adequacy as the greater inadequacy of all rival attempts in ...
— Wordsworth • F. W. H. Myers


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