"enoughness" meaning in English

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Noun

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
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          "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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