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Synonyms for sufficiency
səˈfɪʃ ən sisuf·fi·cien·cy

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  1. sufficiencynoun

    Synonyms:
    sufficience

  2. sufficiencynoun

    Quality or condition of being sufficient.

    Synonyms:
    sufficience

  3. sufficiencynoun

    An adequate amount.

    Synonyms:
    sufficience

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sufficiencynoun

    sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations

    "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency"

    Synonyms:
    enough, adequacy

    Antonyms:
    deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy

  2. enough, sufficiencynoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    enough, adequacy

    Antonyms:
    inadequacy, deficiency, insufficiency

  3. sufficiency, adequacynoun

    the quality of being sufficient for the end in view

    "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

    Synonyms:
    adequateness, enough, adequacy

    Antonyms:
    inadequacy, insufficiency, deficiency

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sufficiencynoun

    Synonyms:
    adequacy, enough, competence, plenty, ample supply

  2. sufficiencynoun

    Synonyms:
    ability, qualification, capacity

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. sufficiencynoun

    Synonyms:
    enough, adequacy, competence

    Antonyms:
    insufficiency, inadequacy

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "sufficiency":

    adequacy, self-sufficiency, kefaya, complacency, solvency

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#17656adequacy
#21787sufficiency
#40731solvency
#42263complacency

How to use sufficiency in a sentence?

  1. Yang Shuangquan:

    In offshore oil drilling we'd like to cut the reliance on imports by improving the self-sufficiency, (The plan) draws up... major development projects for the oil industries in exploiting natural gas, shale gas and offshore oil. The latter two will remain as China's strategic moves to ensure energy supply.

  2. Robert D. Richardson:

    Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.

  3. Krijn Poppe:

    In future we have to feed more people, and agriculture is becoming part of geopolitics, you see in a lot of countries there is interest in local production. In Russia it's influenced by a self-sufficiency policy.

  4. Ata Mohammad Noor:

    We needed factories to produce our own ammunition and workshops to repair the aircraft and other vehicles that were given to the Afghan forces, but the international forces did not work to build a foundation, a self-sufficiency in Afghanistan.

  5. Pamela Wheelock:

    We need to have enough information about a suspect so that somebody can reasonably use that information to help keep themselves safe, unless we have a sufficiency of information, we’re not actually going to use any suspect information.


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