English

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.

Related terms

• good-enoughness
• not-enoughness