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sufficiency

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,285 of 15,258leans written

Sufficiency is having as much as is needed. A sufficiency of food.

It is a formal word for enough and carries no idea of plenty. Self-sufficiency is the compound most people meet the word in.

Definitions of sufficiency

  1. 1nounsufficiencyHaving as much as is needed.C1

    “There was a sufficiency of water and nothing more.”

sufficiency is a state.

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sufficiency in the wild

  • Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency, usually applied to societies, communities, states, and their economic systems.

    Autarky

  • For instance, France has published a National energy sufficiency plan in October 2022.

    Eco-sufficiency

  • Sufficiency economy is the name of a Thai development approach attributed to King Bhumibol Adulyadej's "sufficiency economy philosophy" (SEP).

    Sufficiency economy

  • Self-sufficiency entails the self being enough (to fulfill needs), and a self-sustaining entity can maintain self-sufficiency indefinitely.

    Self-sustainability

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.