"adequacy" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈædɪkwəsi/, /ˈædəkwəsi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-adequacy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: adequacies [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree Latin adaequō Latin adaequātuslbor. English adequate English -cy English adequacy From adequate + -cy. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|adequate|-cy|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Latin adaequō Latin adaequātuslbor. English adequate English -cy English adequacy [Appendix:Glossary#learned_borrowing|Learned borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "adaequō", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "adaequātus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "adequate", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-cy", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "adequacy", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="adequacy"> From adequate + -cy. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} adequacy (countable and uncountable, plural adequacies)
  1. The quality of being sufficient, adequate or able to meet the needs. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: adequacy, enoughness, sufficience, sufficiency Derived forms: capital adequacy, delusion of adequacy Translations (sufficiency): адеква́тност (adekvátnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), deugdelijkheid (Dutch), sopivuus (Finnish), soveltuvuus (Finnish), ადეკვატურობა (adeḳvaṭuroba) (Georgian), შესაბამისობა (šesabamisoba) (Georgian), შესაფერისობა (šesaperisoba) (Georgian), სათანადოობა (satanadooba) (Georgian), საკმარისობა (saḳmarisoba) (Georgian), Brauchbarkeit [feminine] (German), Angemessenheit [feminine] (German), Eignung [feminine] (German), पर्याप्तता (paryāptatā) [feminine] (Hindi), leorgacht [feminine] (Irish), 適切さ (tekisetsusa) (Japanese), odpowiedniość [feminine] (Polish), stosowność [feminine] (Polish), adekwatność [feminine] (Polish), adequação [feminine] (Portuguese), adekvatnost [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cantidad suficiente [feminine] (Spanish), yeterlik (Turkish)

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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "tekisetsusa",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "word": "適切さ"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "odpowiedniość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "stosowność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adekwatność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adequação"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "lang_code": "sh",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "adekvatnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cantidad suficiente"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "lang_code": "tr",
      "sense": "sufficiency",
      "word": "yeterlik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "adequacy"
}

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