enoughness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]enoughness (uncountable)
- 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.