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Adequacy

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state or quality of being adequate; the condition of being proportionate or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose: as, the adequacy of supply to expenditure, or of an effort to its purpose; an adequacy of provisions.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:

n. the quality of being sufficient for the end in view

Word Usage

"They fired off a no-holds-barred letter to the Food and Drug Administration, announcing an investigation into what they call the adequacy of the efforts of the FDA to protect the safety of the nation's food supply."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

satisfactoriness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sufficiency

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

timeliness suitability plasticity soundness coherence