sufficiency

noun — 2 senses

sufficiency

noun
1

The quality or condition of being sufficient.

2

An adequate amount.

  • But the Eastern front of the Allies was far more vulnerable. Russia could not begin to supply herself with a sufficiency of large guns and of heavy munitionment for them.1916, Hilaire Belloc, A General Sketch of the European War: The second phase, page 388:
Synonyms
enoughness, sufficience
Antonyms
insufficiency, unsufficiency
Derived terms
Biogen sufficiency, elegant sufficiency, haplosufficiency, insufficiency, nonsufficiency, omnisufficiency, self-sufficiency, unsufficiency

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