sufficiency
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5.9
- noun
- /səˈfɪʃənsi/
:
suficiencia
- "Do be sure to bring with you a sufficiency of candles.
- self-sufficiency
- economic self-sufficiency
- sufficiency of evidence
And so he says, OK, a man's sufficiency is that which meets his necessities.
- And so he says, OK, a man's sufficiency is that which meets his necessities.
- It's just this complete absence of lack, this complete ease, this, this fullness, this sufficiency, this plenitude.
Examples
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In literature, a number of fit statistics are employed to determine the sufficiency of a model.
Academic text (2012) -
It's just this complete absence of lack, this complete ease, this, this fullness, this sufficiency, this plenitude.
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There can be no crime when there is a sufficiency of everything.
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"At last, we have all arrived, and we have a sufficiency," he said.
Fiction book (1993) -
As you know, we have a sufficiency of qualified candidates for a position in your department but you got it.
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It has three dimensions, sufficiency, security and sustainability.
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As a result, the nation's food self-sufficiency declined steadily through the 1980s.
Academic text (1993) -
Because when I went to that stage, when I stood in front of those cameras, my first obligation was to acknowledge the legal sufficiency of what happened.
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And so he says, OK, a man's sufficiency is that which meets his necessities.
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The charity ensured a sufficiency of food and supplies for the families in need.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A large amount that is more than needed
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3.7
A state of being enough or suitable for a purpose
The quality of being good enough to meet a need
Being good enough to meet a need or expectation
Antonyms
How Adequate
Surface Forms
Morphology
sufficiency = sufficient (transparent) = suffice + ency
Formed by derivation from 'sufficient' with the noun-forming suffix '-ency', meaning 'the state or quality of being sufficient'.
Etymology
Sufficiency comes from the verb suffice, which is built from Latin parts sub- 'under' and facere 'to make'. A helpful image is something 'made to hold up under' a need, so sufficiency means having 'enough' for a purpose.