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English Dictionary: sufficiency	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sufficiency n sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency" 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" Synonym(s): enough, sufficiency the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" Synonym(s): sufficiency, adequacy Antonym(s): deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sufficiency \Suffi"ciency\, n. [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. [bd]An elegant sufficiency.[b8] --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.