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adequation

adequation

9.9
Making something enough for a certain purpose
  • noun
  • /ˌædɪˈkwɛɪʃən/
translation icon : adecuación
  • The adequation of the training program to students' needs is crucial for their success.

Examples

  • The architect focused on the adequation of the design to meet modern safety standards.

  • She questioned the adequation of the funding to support the new educational initiatives.

  • I don't see truth as merely a matter of, of, you know, intellectual adequation to, to the things.

  • The emphasis in these diptychs is not on the adequation of the Virgin to an ancient and faraway model but rather on a contemporaneity shared by the Virgin and the fifteenth-century face appearing beside it.

    Academic text (2006)

Antonyms

inadequacy
30 5.8

A lack of enough skill, quality, or amount to meet a need

How Effective

to overhaul
35 4.6
adequation
9.9
modification
137 3.9
adjustment
133 2.9
tweak
28 3.9

Surface Forms

adequation singular
adequations plural

Morphology

adequation = adequate (transparent) = adequate + ion

Formed by a straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'adequate' with '-ion', yielding the act or state related to being adequate.

Etymology

Adequation comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and aequus 'equal', the same root as the English words equal and adequate. So adequation is the act of making something 'equal' to a need — in other words, making it fit or be enough for a purpose.