{
  "id": "enough.sufficient",
  "term": "enough",
  "sense": "sufficient",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "enough",
  "domain": "enough",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a quantity that is not less than the need",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "total.quantity",
      "need.psychological"
    ],
    "interaction": "The quantity and the need differ not.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "sufficiency",
      "non‑deficiency"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Mars Curiosity rover operated for over 1,000 sols on its initial power allocation, despite dust reducing solar input.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, temporary shelters in Aceh provided enough floor space per family to meet Sphere humanitarian standards.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A 2021 study found that 7 hours of sleep was enough for cognitive performance in 92% of adult participants in the UK Biobank cohort.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "ability.capacity",
    "medium.level",
    "rhythm.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "enough"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-enough.sufficient"
}