sufficiency

1. 1.

   sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations

   “her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency”

   Broaderwealth
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsenough

   Broaderrelative quantity

   Narrowerfill
3. 3.

   the quality of being sufficient for the end in view

   “he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence”

   Synonymsadequacy

   Antonymsinsufficiency

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerampleness

Other forms of sufficiency

plural

sufficiencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sufficiency

What does sufficiency mean?

sufficiency means "sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sufficiency?

sufficiency has 4 syllables: suf-fic-ien-cy. The stress falls on "fic". In IPA it is /səˈfɪʃənsi/.

What is another word for sufficiency?

Close synonyms include enough, adequacy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of sufficiency?

The recorded antonyms are insufficiency.

Is sufficiency a common word?

sufficiency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sufficiency?

5 words rhyme with sufficiency. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.