adequacy

1. 1.

   the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"

   Synonymsadequateness

   Antonymsinadequacy

   Broadersatisfactoriness
2. 2.

   the quality of being sufficient for the end in view

   “he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence”

   Synonymssufficiency

   Antonymsinadequacy

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerampleness

Other forms of adequacy

plural

adequacies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adequacy

What does adequacy mean?

adequacy means "the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adequacy?

adequacy has 4 syllables: ad-eq-ua-cy. The stress falls on "ad". In IPA it is /ˈædəkwəsi/.

What is another word for adequacy?

Close synonyms include adequateness, sufficiency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of adequacy?

The recorded antonyms are inadequacy, inadequacy.

Is adequacy a common word?

adequacy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.