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..
Suffisant :: Suffisance (n.) Sufficiency; plenty; abundance; contentment.
Abundance :: Abundance (n.) An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number..
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..
Incompetency :: Incompetency (n.) The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts..
Insolvency :: Insolvency (n.) Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner; as, the insolvency of an estate..
Adequacy :: Adequacy (n.) The state or quality of being adequate, proportionate, or sufficient; a sufficiency for a particular purpose; as, the adequacy of supply to the expenditure..
Exception :: Exception (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted..
Insatisfaction :: Insatisfaction (n.) Insufficiency; emptiness.
Sufficiency :: Sufficiency (n.) Adequate substance or means; competence.
Competency :: Competency (n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.
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..
Inadequacy :: Inadequacy (n.) The quality or state of being inadequate or insufficient; defectiveness; insufficiency; inadequateness.
Insufficience :: Insufficience (n.) Insufficiency.
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..
Supply :: Supply (n.) That which supplies a want; sufficiency of things for use or want.
Glut :: Glut (n.) Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market..
Sufficiency :: Sufficiency (n.) Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.
Paucity :: Paucity (n.) Smallnes of quantity; exiguity; insufficiency; as, paucity of blood..
Enough :: Enough (n.) A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself..
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