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Definition of Adequateness
1. Noun. The quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:. "He questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"
Generic synonyms: Satisfactoriness
Attributes: Adequate, Equal, Inadequate, Unequal
Antonyms: Inadequacy
Derivative terms: Adequate, Adequate, Adequate
Definition of Adequateness
1. n. The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
Definition of Adequateness
1. Noun. The quality of being adequate or of meeting needs or expectations. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Adequateness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Adequateness
Literary usage of Adequateness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"Sufficient, sufficing, enough, commensurate, proportionate, correspondent, equal,
suitable, tit, competent, adapted. adequateness, n. See ADEQUACY. ..."
2. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1882)
"But this fact, that we are under a supernatural Providence, does not destroy or
modi fy the adequateness of our natural faculties to what would have been ..."
3. Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ: His Life and Work, His Epistles and His by Ferdinand Christian Baur (1875)
"The expression denotes, broadly, the adequateness of the relation subsisting
between God and man; and since this adequateness can be realized only on the ..."
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