| NOUN | state | sufficiency | sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations |
|---|---|---|---|
| quantity | sufficiency, enough | an adequate quantity | |
| attribute | sufficiency, adequacy | the quality of being sufficient for the end in view |
| Sounds | sahfih'shahnsiy | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... | |
| Meaning | sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations. | |
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| Example | "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency" | |
| Broader | wealth, wealthiness | The state of being rich and affluent |
| Spanish | suficiencia | |
| Verbs | suffice | be sufficient |
| Meaning | An adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose. | |
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| Example | "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country" | |
| Synonym | enough | |
| Narrower | fill | A quantity sufficient to satisfy |
| Broader | relative quantity | A quantity relative to some purpose |
| Adjectives | sufficient | of a quantity that can fulfill / fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant |
| Verbs | suffice | be sufficient |
| Meaning | The quality of being sufficient for the end in view. | |
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| Example | "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" | |
| Synonym | adequacy | |
| Attributes | ample | More than enough in size or scope or capacity |
| meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy | Deficient in amount or quality or extent | |
| Narrower | ampleness | The property of being more than sufficient |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency | lack of an adequate quantity or number |
| Spanish | suficiencia | |
| Adjectives | sufficient | of a quantity that can fulfill / fulfill a need or requirement but without being abundant |
| Verbs | suffice | be sufficient |
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