Definition of Sufficiency

1. Noun. Sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations. "Her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency"

Generic synonyms: Wealth, Wealthiness
Derivative terms: Suffice

2. Noun. An adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose. "There is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
Exact synonyms: Enough
Generic synonyms: Relative Quantity
Specialized synonyms: Fill
Derivative terms: Enough, Suffice, Sufficient

3. Noun. The quality of being sufficient for the end in view. "He questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"
Exact synonyms: Adequacy
Generic synonyms: Quality
Specialized synonyms: Ampleness
Attributes: Ample, Meager, Meagerly, Meagre, Scrimpy, Stingy
Antonyms: Inadequacy, Insufficiency
Derivative terms: Suffice, Sufficient

Definition of Sufficiency

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

Definition of Sufficiency

1. [n SUFFICIENCIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufficiency

sufferances
suffered
sufferer
sufferers
suffering
sufferings
suffers
suffete
suffetes
suffice
sufficed
sufficer
sufficers
suffices
sufficiencies
sufficiency (current term)
sufficient
sufficiently
sufficing
suffix
suffixal
suffixation
suffixations
suffixed
suffixes
suffixing
suffixion
suffixions
suffix notation
sufflate

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