Associations to the word «Adequacy»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

ADEQUACY, noun. The quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule".
ADEQUACY, noun. The quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne