Meanings
plural adequacies
- countableuncountableThe quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.
His zeal is, of course, unquestionable; his adequacy, however, I doubt.
1 more example
GREETINGS, adventurer! In honor of your adequacy, I bring you a gift from the Dunmer people!
2013, Kazerad, Aggy: Approach, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), November 22 2013Synonyms: enoughness, sufficience, sufficiency
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:
nounthe quality of being sufficient for the end in view
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinadaequō
- Latinadaequātu
- Englishadequ(ate)
- Englishadequacy
From adequ(ate) + -acy.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian адеква́тност
- адеква́тност (adekvátnost)sufficiency
Dutch deugdelijkheid
- deugdelijkheidsufficiency
Finnish sopivuus, soveltuvuus
- sopivuussufficiency
- soveltuvuussufficiency
German Brauchbarkeit, Angemessenheit
- Brauchbarkeitsufficiency
- Angemessenheitsufficiency
- Eignungsufficiency
Hindi पर्याप्तता
- पर्याप्तता (paryāptatā)sufficiency
Irish leorgacht
- leorgachtsufficiency
Japanese 適切さ
- 適切さ (tekisetsusa)sufficiency
Polish odpowiedniość, stosowność
- odpowiedniośćsufficiency
- stosownośćsufficiency
- adekwatnośćsufficiency
Portuguese adequação
- adequaçãosufficiency
Spanish cantidad suficiente
- cantidad suficientesufficiency
Turkish yeterlik
- yeterliksufficiency
Cite this entry
adequacy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adequacy
“adequacy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adequacy. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “adequacy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/adequacy.
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