sufficiency

[ suh-fish-uhn-see ]

noun

1. the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.
2. a sufficient number or amount; enough.
3. adequate provision or supply, especially of wealth.

sufficiency

/ səˈfɪʃənsɪ /

noun

1. the quality or condition of being sufficient
2. an adequate amount or quantity, as of income
3. archaic.
   efficiency

Other Words From

• over·suf·ficien·cy noun
• presuf·ficien·cy noun
• super·suf·ficien·cy noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sufficiency¹

1485–95; < Late Latin sufficientia; sufficient, -ency

Example Sentences

Improving processing speeds, governance, and quality of data, as well as its sufficiency for models, are the main data imperatives to ensure AI can be scaled, say the survey respondents.

From MIT Technology Review

“The charter does not give the city attorney the power to invalidate a City Council action by withholding her signature for that reason or any reason other than legal sufficiency,” Elliott spokeswoman Leslie Wolf Branscomb wrote in an email.

From Voice of San Diego

But such an approach works against the traditional pride in self-sufficiency espoused by many in the American middle class.

From The Daily Beast

Domestically, the former governor offers an avowedly nationalistic agenda, focused on American self-sufficiency.

From The Daily Beast

Academic studies have found that mental health parenting evaluations often take this self-sufficiency view of parenting.

From The Daily Beast

Food in Calabria was pride, self-sufficiency and community all mixed together in one mouthful.

From The Daily Beast

I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency — that sort of thing.

From The Daily Beast

David had replied, in that short tone of self-sufficiency which conveys so much more than the syllable would seem to warrant.

From Project Gutenberg

Some are merely well off, others immensely wealthy—with a sufficiency invested elsewhere.

From Project Gutenberg

Who can understand its nature, its operations, the sufficiency which is not sufficient, and the efficacy which is ineffectual.

From Project Gutenberg

It is to enable this class of readers to test the quality and sufficiency of their belief that this book has been prepared.

From Project Gutenberg

The unfortunate peasant frequently has scarcely a sufficiency left to keep life in himself and his family.

From Project Gutenberg