sufficiency

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.

Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.

Adequate substance or means; competence.

Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.

Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

much enough ability capacity sufficient efficiency quantity fill capability ease adequate pride abundance prosperity satisfaction

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Antonyms

insufficiency few little need lack abyss

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Hypernyms

quality relative quantity

Hyponyms

fill ampleness

Phrases with the word

self- sufficiency self-sufficiency farming achieve self-sufficiency absence of self-sufficiency nutrient sufficiency lack of sufficiency

Examples

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little. Epicurus

I take one decisive and immediate step, and resign my all to the sufficiency of my Saviour. Thomas Chalmers

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience. Bill Hybels

For he that hath strength enough to protect all, wants not sufficiency to oppresse all. Thomas Hobbes

No, George said, you don't understand. The pinball machine--any pinball machine you play in any penny arcade--is so remarkable, so fine, so shrewdly threaded. It is already beautiful in necessity and sufficiency of wire, connection, possibility. Grace Paley

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand. Traditional Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sufficer sufficience sufficiencie sufficient sufficient amount sufficient attention