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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sufficiency \Suf*fi"cien*cy\, noun [L. sufficientia: cf. F. suffisance. See {Suffice}.]
1. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy.
His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. --Boyle.
2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. --Shak.
I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others. --Eikon Basilike.
3. Adequate substance or means; competence. ''An elegant sufficiency.'' --Thomson.
4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
5. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. --Sir W. Temple.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
sufficiency
noun
1: sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency"
2: an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country" [syn: {enough}]
3: the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" [syn: {adequacy}] [ant: {insufficiency}, {insufficiency}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
37 Moby Thesaurus words for "sufficiency": ability, ableness, acceptability, adequacy, adequateness, admissibility, agreeability, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, competence, efficacy, efficiency, facility, faculty, fairishness, fitness, flair, genius, goodishness, passableness, proficiency, qualification, satisfactoriness, sufficient, susceptibility, talent, tenability, the goods, the stuff, tolerability, tolerableness, unexceptionability, unobjectionability, viability, what it takes
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