enoughness
Etymology

From enough + -ness.

Noun

enoughness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy.
    • 2002, Ira Chernus, Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace:
      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."
    • 2003, Marcia Menter, The office sutras: exercises for your soul at work, page 34:
      But all of us have deep beliefs about our own enoughness, often stemming from childhood...
    • 2008, Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore, Insensitive Semantics:
      We have tried to convince you that the problem, worry, or puzzle that arises in connection with readiness or enoughness, if there is one, is metaphysical, and not semantic; [...]
    • 2008, Anable Shilson Thomas, Live simply:
      The fourth and last principle is that of the Sabbath - the feast of enoughness.
    • 2014, Matt Heard, Life With A Capital L, pages 140–141:
      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.
Related terms
  • good-enoughness
  • not-enoughness



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