self-insufficiency
- a word derived from insufficiency.
Example Sentences
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Why, of late years, had he sunk deeper and deeper in the vagueness of that self-insufficiency!
From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis
He saw suddenly, in a sort of despair, that the only answer to the question which he sometimes had to ask in vague, black self-insufficiency was the assenting yes, yes, yes!...
From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis
Now that he had no more need for action, waves of indeterminate darkness surged and floated all around and within him, bearing on their crests the mood of self-insufficiency.
From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis
Oh, world of feeling born just of the emptiness of self-insufficiency, because self, alas, was never sufficient, because something was always lacking and he did not know what!...
From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis
It was as though a sudden terror blinded him, as though a spectre of guilt suddenly loomed up out of all the black self-insufficiency of the last few years, his years of married life.
From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis
