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Definition: Sufficiency |
SufficiencyNoun1. 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". 3. The quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sufficiency" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Sufficiency \Suf*fi"cien*cy\, noun. [Latin expression sufficientia: compare to the French expression suffisance. See Suffice.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Statistics | A property of an estimator by R. A. Fisher(1921). Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: SufficiencySynonyms: adequacy (n), enough (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: insufficiency (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Completeness | Impletion; saturation, saturity; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful; brimmer; sufficiency. |
Sufficiency | Noun: sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal, satisfaction, competence; no less; quantum sufficit, Q.S. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sufficiency |
| English words defined with "sufficiency": adequacy, ampleness ♦ Challenge to the favor ♦ De bene esse, defective pleading, demurrer ♦ enough ♦ golden mean ♦ Suffisance. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sufficiency": Suffisance. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency. (Sjunde inseglet, Det; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | What happened to Jones Broadhurst's hilarious sufficiency : by George H. Broadhurst, author of Why Smith left home, The wrong Mr. Wright, etc. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Broadhurst's hilarious sufficiency, What happened to Jones by Geo. H. Broadhurst, author of Why Smith left home, The wrong Mr. Wright, The house that Jack built, etc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Better prognosis is indicated from mild symptoms at diagnosis, pancreatic sufficiency, and atypical presentation. (references) | |
Business | New investment in Mai Liao was meant to allow the Taiwan market to increase ethylene self sufficiency and to better compete internationally. (references) | |
Taiwan did not have the benefit of natural crude oil resources, but through imports, Taiwan maintained an ethylene self sufficiency rate of about 45.7 percent in 1999. The ethylene self sufficiency rate should increase to approximately 57% on the completion of the final stage of the Formosa Plastics naphtha cracker facility. (references) | ||
Economic History | France | French military doctrine is based on the concepts of national independence, nuclear deterrence, and military sufficiency. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Uzbekistan has all the ingredients needed to become a regional economic powerhouse: a dynamic, literate and entrepreneurial population of 25 million, a central location at the crossroads of Central Asia, relatively good infrastructure, rich mineral resources, energy self sufficiency, and political and social stability. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sufficiency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sufficiency" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 100 | 32,668 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sufficiency": a sufficiency of money ♦ self sufficiency ♦ sufficiency of goods ♦ sufficiency of means. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "sufficiency": self-sufficiency. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
self sufficiency | 27 |
sufficiency | 8 |
family program self sufficiency | 8 |
family self sufficiency | 6 |
project self sufficiency | 4 |
data sufficiency | 3 |
program self sufficiency | 2 |
self sufficiency survival | 2 |
family narrative self sufficiency | 2 |
building opportunity self sufficiency | 2 |
potato self sufficiency | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sufficiency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mjaftueshmëri (adequacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كفاية (adequacy, fill), مقدار كاف (enough), غرور (arrogance, bighead, conceit, delusion, ego, egoism, egotism, pretension, pride, vanity), ثقة بالنفس (aplomb, self confidence, self possession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | способност (ability, aptness, bump, capability, capacity, competence, competency, efficiency, faculty, fitness, flair, notion, power, quality, turn), задоволеност (indulgence), достатъчност. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 充分 (Adequate, full). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dostatek (enough), dostateènost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sufficiens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | toereikendheid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقدارکافی , کفایت (Adequacy, Autarchy, Competence, Efficiency, Plenty), قابلیت (Ability, Capability), شایستگی (Ability, Adequacy, Aptitude, Aptness, Competence, Decency, Desert, Eligibility, Merit, Pertinence), بسندگی (Adequacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tyhjentävyys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | suffisance. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zulänglichkeiten, Zulänglichkeit (sufficience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επάρκεια (adequacy, competence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כמות מספקת (fill), "סתפקות (contenment, frugality, satisfaction), "י (adequacy, adequate, enough, plenty, quite, sufficient), ספיק" (discharge, flow, need, possibility, satisfaction, supply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elegendő mennyiség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kecukupan (adequacy, adequate amount). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sufficienza (enough, fill). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 充足 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅうそく (being filled, full up, plug, stopped up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ufficiencysay suficiência de meios, recursos adequados, quantidade suficiente (sufficient), eficiência (despatch, dispatch). (various references) independenţã (freedom, independence, independency, self sufficiency), autonomie (autonomy, independence, self sufficiency, self-government), încredere în sine (conceit, self sufficiency, self-reliance). (various references) достаточность (adequacy). (various references) leòr (enough, enough : a leòr, his fill : gu), fòghnadh (sufficing; also subjunctive), cus (too, too much), cuibheas (a sufficiency, enough). (various references) dovoljnost. (various references) suficiencia (adequacy, self-conceit, superiority). (various references) tillräcklig mängd. (various references) ความพอเพียง, จำนวนที่พอเพียง (enough). (various references) yeterlik (ability, adequacy, capacity, competence, competency, efficiency, proficiency, qualification), yeterli miktar (enough), uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, appositeness, aptitude, coherence, coherency, comeliness, compatibility, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, convenience, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, pertinence, propitiousness, propriety, relevance, relevancy, seemliness, suitability), kifayet, elverişlilik (convenience, suitability). (various references) здатність (ability, capability, facility, flair, skill), достаток (abundance, affluence, competence, competency, exuberance, exuberancy, fertileness, fertility, fullness, fulness, galore, glut, opulence, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, profusion, store, wealth). (various references) sự đủ (adequacy, adequateness), thẩm quyền (attribution). (various references) digonolrwydd (abundance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | satiati, sufficientia. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 20, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Otan de dokh hdh peplhrwsqai qlibhsetai pasa de anagkh ep' auton epeleusetai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Cum satiatus fuerit artabitur aestuabit et omnis dolor inruet in eum |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Job Chapter 20, Verse 22 |
| Albanian | Kur të jetë në kulmin e bollëkut do të gjendet ngushtë; dora e të gjithë atyre që vuajnë do të ngrihet kundër tij. |
| Cebuano | Sa pagkabusog sa iyang pagkaadunahan siya magalisud: Ang kamot sa tanan nga anaa sa kaalaut kaniya mokapyot. |
| Croatian | Sred izobilja u škripcu æe se naæi, svom æe snagom na nj se oboriti bijeda. |
| Danish | midt i sin Overflod har han det trangt, al Slags Nød kommer over ham. |
| Dutch | Als zijn genoegzaamheid zal vol zijn, zal hem bang zijn; alle hand des ellendigen zal over hem komen. |
| Finnish | Yltäkylläisyytensä runsaudessa on hänellä hätä, häneen iskevät kaikki kurjien kourat. |
| French | Au milieu de l`abondance il sera dans la détresse; La main de tous les misérables se lèvera sur lui. |
| German | Wenn er gleich die Fülle und genug hat, wird ihm doch angst werden; aller Hand Mühsal wird über ihn kommen. |
| Haitian Creole | Atout li gen tout richès sa yo, li pral gen kè sere. Tout kalite mizè pral tonbe sou li. |
| Hungarian | Mikor teljes az õ bõsége, akkor is szükséget lát, és mindenféle nyomorúság támad reá. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ketika memuncak kemakmurannya, derita dan duka datang menimpanya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Di tengah-tengah kemewahan jatuhlah ia ke dalam kesusahan, segala palu celaka itu terkena kepadanya. |
| Italian | Nel colmo della sua abbondanza si trover in miseria; ogni sorta di sciagura piomber su di lui. |
| Maori | I a ia e whiwhi nui nei i te rawa, e rawakore ano ia; ka tae mai ki a ia nga ringa katoa o te hunga kei roto i te mata. |
| Norwegian | Midt i hans rikdom blir det trangt for ham; hver nødlidende vender sin hånd mot ham. |
| Portuguese | Na plenitude da sua abastança, estará angustiado; toda a força da miséria virá sobre ele. |
| Rumanian | Kn mijlocul belwugului va fi kn nevoie; mkna tuturor ticqlowilor se va ridica asupra lui. |
| Russian | ч ПМОПФЕ ЙЪП'ЙМЙС 'Х"ЕФ ФЕУОП ЕНХ; ЧУСЛБС ТХЛБ П'ЙЦЕООПЗП П"ОЙНЕФУС ОБ ОЕЗП. |
| Spanish | En la plenitud de su opulencia tendrá estrechez; toda la fuerza de la miseria caerá sobre él. |
| Swedish | Mitt i hans överflöd påkommer honom nöd, och envar eländig vänder då mot honom sin hand. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "sufficiency": insufficiency. (additional references) | |
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"Sufficiency" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sifficiency. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sufficiency" (pronounced sufi"shunsē) |
| 8 | -u f i" sh u n s ē | deficiency, efficiency, inefficiency, proficiency. |
| 7 | -f i" sh u n s ē | immunodeficiency. |
| 4 | -u n s ē | absorbency, accountancy, agency, ascendancy, ascendency, buoyancy, clemency, cogency, competency, complacency, Conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, consultancy, contingency, counterinsurgency, currency, decency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, discrepancy, dormancy, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, incompetency, inconsistency, inconstancy, incumbency, indecency, infancy, infrequency, insolvency, insurgency, interagency, irrelevancy, latency, leniency, malignancy, militancy, nonemergency, occupancy, poignancy, potency, pregnancy, presidency, redundancy, regency, relevancy, residency, resiliency, solvency, stridency, stringency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, truancy, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy, vibrancy. |
| 3 | -n s ē | bouncy, chancy, deviancy, fancy, fiancee, mincy, Nancy, necromancy, teensy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-f-f-i-i-n-s-u-y" | |
-4 letters: cuisine, suffice, unifies. | |
-5 letters: cynics, ficins, incise, incuse, infuse, scenic, sniffy, snuffy, unific. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-f-f-i-i-n-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: insufficiency. | |
+4 letters: inefficaciously, superefficiency. | |
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