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- noun rare The condition of being
enough ;sufficiency ,adequacy .
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Examples
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And gosh darnit, my thanks for enoughness is already shot, having forgotten that since everything is closed today, I can't buy ciggies, and have run out.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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And gosh darnit, my thanks for enoughness is already shot, having forgotten that since everything is closed today, I can't buy ciggies, and have run out.
Thanks. 2005
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Mr. Schumacher, the world's first German-born, Buddhist-British economist, argued for "enoughness," a Buddhist view that we should get by with far less.
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He put forward an idea of "enoughness," a word to remember.
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Still, the "enoughness" questions nag: What will I need, and how will I pay?
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McKibben argues in his book that growth, part of the civic religion of the U.S., must be replaced -- not by the wishful concept of "sustainability," a concept he rejects as "squishy," but by contraction and enoughness.
Craig K. Comstock: Inconvenient? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 2010
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He favors rebuilding local economies instead of imagining that we can sustain globalization; growing food by means other than industrial agriculture (including local, organic farms and millions of suburban gardens); developing an economic system around the values of durability, robustness, and enoughness; gaining the stimulation of travel in larger part via the internet; building social capital; and above all, reducing not the rate of increase in greenhouse gases, but the absolute proportion.
Craig K. Comstock: Inconvenient? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 2010
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He favors rebuilding local economies instead of imagining that we can sustain globalization; growing food by means other than industrial agriculture (including local, organic farms and millions of suburban gardens); developing an economic system around the values of durability, robustness, and enoughness; gaining the stimulation of travel in larger part via the internet; building social capital; and above all, reducing not the rate of increase in greenhouse gases, but the absolute proportion.
Craig K. Comstock: Inconvenient? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 2010
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McKibben argues in his book that growth, part of the civic religion of the U.S., must be replaced -- not by the wishful concept of "sustainability," a concept he rejects as "squishy," but by contraction and enoughness.
Craig K. Comstock: Inconvenient? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 2010
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There's a barrage of guilt-inducing advice out there that only serves to feed our feelings of 'not-enoughness.
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