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sufficiency

 
Noun sufficiency has 3 senses
  1. sufficiency - sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency"
    --1 is a kind of
    wealth, wealthiness
    Derived form: verb suffice1
  2. enough, sufficiency - an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country"
    --2 is a kind of relative quantity
    --2 has particulars: fill
    Derived form: verb suffice1
  3. sufficiency, adequacy - the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"
    --3 is a kind of quality
    Antonyms: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
    --3 has particulars: ampleness
    Derived form: verb suffice1
suffers suffic sufficate suffice sufficed sufficent sufficeny suffices sufficiency sufficient sufficiently sufficientness sufficing suffier suffit suffit -genus suffix

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