adequacy
noun
the state or quality of being adequate; sufficiency for a particular purpose.
adequacies
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pluralof adequacy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That is odd, considering that America will continue to fund them at a cost of $4 billion a year; and given also the adequacies so painfully evident in Kunduz.
From Economist ● Oct. 8, 2015
Wieland.—Wieland wrote German better than any one else, and had the genuine adequacies and inadequacies of the master.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Some discussed directly their pains, joys, adequacies, and inadequacies.
From Humanistic Nursing by Josephine G. Paterson
Of course, changes in the adequacies of supplies would be taken account of on either interpretation.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
