sufficiency
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- sufficiencie (obsolete)
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]sufficiency (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiencies)
- (uncountable) The quality or condition of being sufficient.
- (countable) An adequate amount.
- 1916, Hilaire Belloc, A General Sketch of the European War: The second phase, page 388:
- But the Eastern front of the Allies was far more vulnerable. Russia could not begin to supply herself with a sufficiency of large guns and of heavy munitionment for them.
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]- insufficiency
- unsufficiency (obsolete)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]quality or condition of being sufficient
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adequate amount
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