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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sufficiency \Suf*fi"cien*cy\, 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. ``An elegant
sufficiency.'' --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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sufficiency
n 1: a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose or
satisfy a desire; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there
is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
[syn: {enough}]
2: a quantity or number sufficient for a purpose [syn: {adequacy}]
[ant: {insufficiency}, {insufficiency}]
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