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adequacy|ˈædɪkwəsɪ|
[f. adequate a.: see -acy.]
The state or quality of being adequate or sufficient for any purpose; sufficiency.
1808Wyvill Intolerance, Their immediate effect was great: the adequacy of it becomes continually more visible. 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 309 We do not, therefore, anticipate that the reader..will object to the adequacy of the cause proposed. 1870Bowen Logic x. 336 The test of the adequacy of a Concept is its more or less complete enumeration of the essential qualities of the real thing. 1924A. D. Sedgwick Little French Girl ii. viii, The deliberate adequacy with which madame Vervier advanced to meet the occasion. |