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The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.

Quality of being actual; actuality.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

A descendant of Adam; a human being.

The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.

Capable of being adapted.

The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine.

The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.

The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt.

The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke.

Capable of being added. "Addible numbers." Locke.

The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.

The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

Takes away. [Obs.] Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt. Latimn.

The quality of being adept; skill.

The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure.

The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.

The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.