adequacy

English

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Noun

adequacy (countable and uncountable, plural adequacies)

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

   His zeal is, of course, unquestionable; his adequacy, however, I doubt.

Derived terms

• capital adequacy
• delusion of adequacy

Translations

sufficiency

• Bulgarian: адеква́тност (bg) f (adekvátnost)
• Dutch: deugdelijkheid (nl)
• Finnish: sopivuus (fi), soveltuvuus (fi)
• Georgian: ადეკვატურობა (adeḳvaṭuroba), შესაბამისობა (šesabamisoba), შესაფერისობა (šesaperisoba), სათანადოობა (satanadooba), საკმარისობა (saḳmarisoba)
• German: Brauchbarkeit (de) f, Angemessenheit (de) f, Eignung (de) f
• Irish: leorgacht f
• Japanese: 適切さ (ja) (tekisetsusa)
• Polish: odpowiedniość (pl) f, stosowność (pl) f, adekwatność (pl) f
• Portuguese: adequação (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: adekvatnost (sh) f
• Spanish: cantidad suficiente f
• Turkish: yeterlik (tr)