Noun
The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDiscouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage. Neal A. Maxwell
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Malcolm Gladwell
The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them. Paul Karl Feyerabend
The abstract properties of this mapping are defined precisely, and its appropriateness and adequacy for the task at hand are demonstrated. David Marr
Life is supplied with a basic adequacy. E. Stanley Jones
There is probably no cult in which ideals of pecuniary merit have not been called in to supplement the ideals of ceremonial adequacy that guide men's conception of what is right in the matter of sacred apparatus. Thorstein Veblen