sufficiency 音标拼音: [səf'ɪʃənsi]
n . 充分,充分的数量,足够的资力
充分,充分的数量,足够的资力
sufficiency n 1 :
sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations ; "
her father questioned the young suitor '
s sufficiency "
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 " [
synonym :
{
enough }, {
sufficiency }]
3 :
the quality of being sufficient for the end in view ; "
he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence " [
synonym :
{
sufficiency }, {
adequacy }] [
ant : {
deficiency }, {
inadequacy },
{
insufficiency }]
Sufficiency \
Suf *
fi "
cien *
cy \,
n . [
L .
sufficientia :
cf .
F .
suffisance .
See {
Suffice }.]
1 .
The quality or state of being sufficient ,
or adequate to the end proposed ;
adequacy .
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His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses ,
his plenty being unexhausted . --
Boyle .
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2 .
Qualification for any purpose ;
ability ;
capacity .
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A substitute or most allowed sufficiency . --
Shak .
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I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others . --
Eikon Basilike .
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3 .
Adequate substance or means ;
competence . "
An elegant sufficiency ." --
Thomson .
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4 .
Supply equal to wants ;
ample stock or fund .
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5 .
Conceit ;
self -
confidence ;
self -
sufficiency .
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Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance .
--
Sir W .
Temple .
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37 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sufficiency ":
ability ,
ableness ,
acceptability ,
adequacy ,
adequateness ,
admissibility ,
agreeability ,
caliber ,
capability ,
capableness ,
capacity ,
competence ,
efficacy ,
efficiency ,
facility ,
faculty ,
fairishness ,
fitness ,
flair ,
genius ,
goodishness ,
passableness ,
proficiency ,
qualification ,
satisfactoriness ,
sufficient ,
susceptibility ,
talent ,
tenability ,
the goods ,
the stuff ,
tolerability ,
tolerableness ,
unexceptionability ,
unobjectionability ,
viability ,
what it takes
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