Sufficiency vs Sufficient - What's the difference?
sufficiency | sufficient |
Quality or condition of being sufficient.
An adequate amount.
Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as,
Possessing adequate talents or accomplishments; of competent power or ability; qualified; fit.
(archaic) Capable of meeting obligations; responsible.
* 1668 , (Samuel Pepys), December 23 1668
self-sufficient; self-satisfied; content.
The smallest amount needed.
Sufficiency is a derived term of sufficient.
As a noun sufficiency
is quality or condition of being sufficient.As a adjective sufficient is
equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as,.As a determiner sufficient is
the smallest amount needed.sufficiency
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Alternative forms
* sufficiencie (obsolete)Noun
(sufficiencies)Synonyms
* enoughness * sufficienceAntonyms
* insufficiency * unsufficiency (obs.)sufficient
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(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- We have provision sufficient for the family
- This army is sufficient to defend the country.
- There is not sufficient access to the internet in the some small country villages.
- A two-week training course is sufficient to get a job in the coach-driving profession.
- ...to take the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place, when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
Derived terms
* self-sufficient * sufficiency * sufficientlySee also
* adequate * ample * enough * plentyDeterminer
(en determiner)- Sufficient of us are against this idea that we should stop now.