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sufficiency

noun

suf·​fi·​cien·​cy sə-ˈfi-shən(t)-sē How to pronounce sufficiency (audio)
plural sufficiencies
1
: sufficient means to meet one's needs : competency
also : a modest but adequate scale of living
2
: the quality or state of being sufficient : adequacy

Example Sentences

the sufficiency of the portions is such that you will leave the restaurant with a full stomach but without doggie bags
Recent Examples on the Web Thatcher learned the values of thrift, self-sufficiency and living within ones means at the knee of her father, a grocer and alderman. Rosa Prince, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022 But deep down the leaders of these businesses know that China’s relentless drive toward self-sufficiency is likely to someday harm them. Ram Charan, Fortune, 31 May 2022 In practice, what self-sufficiency has meant for China, the world’s biggest trading nation, is finding alternatives to imports or creating dependable supply lines. James T. Areddy, WSJ, 3 May 2022 The key to restoring US self-sufficiency and global leadership in semiconductor and circuit board production lies in publicly addressing the impediments to rational private investment enumerated above. Robert Hockett, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021 Cypress brings a steely professionalism to aspiring politician Taissa, while Lynskey is typically excellent as Shauna, an unhappy housewife masking a fierce self-sufficiency under a self-effacing demeanor. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 5 Nov. 2021 That self-sufficiency should insulate us from the worst of the energy turbulence around the world, at least for a while — though inflation, already running high, could still end up dampening the economy more broadly. Damon Linker, The Week, 6 Oct. 2021 Food security and self-sufficiency have long been high on the agenda of Chinese policy makers. Jacky Wong, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022 Their dilemma reflects the precarious situation of families in rural Donetsk who cling to self-sufficiency even as war threatens to sweep over them. Erika Solomon, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

earlier sufficience in same sense (going back to Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Late Latin sufficientia, from Latin sufficient-, sufficiens sufficient + -ia -ia entry 1) + -ency

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of sufficiency was in the 15th century

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