"enoughness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From enough + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|enough|ness}} enough + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} enoughness (uncountable)
  1. The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy. Tags: uncountable Related terms: good-enoughness, not-enoughness
    Sense id: en-enoughness-en-noun-XKRFmUGD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "2002, Ira Chernus, Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace:",
          "text": "Secretary of State Dulles pointed out that the report's aim was not \"scaring our people but giving them a realistic picture of the dilemma in which they would find themselves\" when the Soviet Union as well as the United States had attained \"enoughness.\"",
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          "ref": "2003, Marcia Menter, The office sutras: exercises for your soul at work, page 34:",
          "text": "But all of us have deep beliefs about our own enoughness, often stemming from childhood...",
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          "ref": "2008, Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics:",
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          "ref": "2008, Anable Shilson Thomas, Live simply:",
          "text": "The fourth and last principle is that of the Sabbath - the feast of enoughness.",
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          "ref": "2014, Matt Heard, Life With A Capital L, pages 140–141:",
          "text": "Their enjoyment of God's significance was constant, and their experience of his loving enoughness was undiluted. [...] The seamless canopy of God's glory over all his creation now had a tragic, gaping hole in it. The Creator's enoughness had been defiled by his creatures, and for the first time, something now existed on this planet that did not glorify him.",
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          "ref": "2002, Ira Chernus, Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace:",
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