sufficiency

sufficiency
    n 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}, {sufficiency}]
    3: the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he
       questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" [syn:
       {sufficiency}, {adequacy}] [ant: {deficiency}, {inadequacy},
       {insufficiency}]
    

Sufficiency \Suf*fi"cien*cy\, n. [L. sufficientia: cf. F.
   suffisance. See {Suffice}.]
   1. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to
      the end proposed; adequacy.
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            His sufficiency is such that he bestows and
            possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. --Boyle.
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   2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity.
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            A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. --Shak.
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            I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not
            willingly to admit the counsel of others. --Eikon
                                                  Basilike.
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   3. Adequate substance or means; competence. "An elegant
      sufficiency." --Thomson.
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   4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
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   5. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
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            Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.
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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