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quality vs adequacy

adequacy vs quality

quality and adequacy both are nouns.

quality is an adjective but adequacy is not an adjective.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
quality Yes Yes No No
adequacy Yes No No No
As nouns, adequacy is a hyponym of quality; that is, adequacy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than quality:
  • quality: an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
  • adequacy: the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
Other hyponyms of quality include appearance, visual aspect, attraction, attractiveness, clarity, clearness, uncloudedness, opacity, opaqueness, divisibility, ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity, difficultness, difficulty, burnability, combustibility, combustibleness, suitability, suitableness, arability, impressiveness, navigability, neediness, distressingness, painfulness, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, publicity, spinnability, ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, protectiveness, nature, humanity, humanness, manhood, air, atmosphere, aura, excellence, ultimate, characteristic, salability, salableness, changeability, changeableness, changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness, sameness, difference, certainty, foregone conclusion, sure thing, probability, precariousness, uncertainness, uncertainty, factuality, factualness, counterfactuality, corporality, corporeality, materiality, physicalness, immateriality, incorporeality, particularity, specialness, generality, simpleness, simplicity, complexity, complexness, regularity, irregularity, unregularity, mobility, immobility, pleasantness, sweetness, unpleasantness, believability, credibility, credibleness, incredibility, incredibleness, logicality, logicalness, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence, naturalness, unnaturalness, vertu, virtu, wholesomeness, morbidity, morbidness, unwholesomeness, satisfactoriness, unsatisfactoriness, mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness, extraordinariness, ethnicity, curiousness, foreignness, strangeness, nativeness, originality, unoriginality, correctness, rightness, incorrectness, wrongness, accuracy, truth, accuracy, inaccuracy, popularity, unpopularity, lawfulness, unlawfulness, elegance, elegance, inelegance, urbanity, comprehensibility, understandability, expressiveness, incomprehensibility, humaneness, inhumaneness, inhumanity, morality, immorality, amorality, divinity, holiness, sanctitude, sanctity, ideality, unholiness, parental quality, faithfulness, fidelity, infidelity, unfaithfulness, mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication, worldliness, naiveness, naivete, naivety, hardness, penetrability, perviousness, impenetrability, imperviousness, soapiness, fibrosity, fibrousness, directiveness, directivity, extremeness, closeness, stuffiness, sufficiency, worth, ineptitude, worthlessness, good, goodness, bad, badness, fecundity, fruitfulness, aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness, usefulness, utility, inutility, unusefulness, uselessness, asset, plus, constructiveness, destructiveness, positiveness, positivism, positivity, negativeness, negativism, negativity, occidentalism, orientalism, power, powerfulness, ability, impotence, impotency, powerlessness, inability, unfitness, romance, romanticism, domesticity, boundlessness, infiniteness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness, boundedness, finiteness, finitude, measurability, quantifiability, solubility, insolubility, stuff, hot stuff, voluptuousness, humor, humour, pathos, poignancy, tone, brachycephalism, brachycephaly, dolichocephalism, dolichocephaly, relativity, responsiveness, deadness, unresponsiveness, subjectivism, snootiness, ulteriority, memorability, woodiness, woodsiness, waxiness, indivisibility, immeasurability, minutia, injectiveness.
quality (noun) adequacy (noun)
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily:
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
a degree or grade of excellence or worth
a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something
high social status
quality (adjective) adequacy (adjective)
of superior grade
of high social status
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