Definition of sufficiency

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Sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy..

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Enough :: Enough (interj.) An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough..
Competency :: Competency (n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
Relevancy :: Relevancy (n.) Sufficiency to infer the conclusion.
Insufficiency :: Insufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc..
Indicator :: Indicator (n.) That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis..
Sufficient :: Sufficiency (n.) Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency.
Suffisant :: Suffisance (n.) Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment.
Insolvency :: Insolvency (n.) Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate..
Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..
Self-sufficiency :: Self-sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being self-sufficient.
Supply :: Supply (n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
Supply :: Supply (v. t.) To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial lake; -- often followed by with before the thing furnished; as, to supply a furnace with fuel; to supply soldiers with ammunition..
Sufficiency :: Sufficiency (n.) The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end proposed; adequacy..
Excess :: Excess (n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light..
Confidence :: Confidence (n.) The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed..
Agnosticism :: Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism..
Adequateness :: Adequateness (n.) The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy.
Paucity :: Paucity (n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood..
Unsufficiency :: Unsufficiency (n.) Insufficiency.
Insatisfaction :: Insatisfaction (n.) Insufficiency; emptiness.
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