Enoughness

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The state or condition of being enough; sufficiency; adequacy..

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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."

But all of us have deep beliefs about our own enoughness, often stemming from childhood...

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; [...]

The fourth and last principle is that of the Sabbath - the feast of enoughness.

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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