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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
   "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country";
   - enough, nuff [non-standard]
    
3. The quality of being sufficient for the end in view
   "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence";
   - adequacy

Derived forms: sufficiencies

See also: ample, meager [N. Amer], meagerly [N. Amer], meagre [Brit, Cdn], meagrely [Brit, Cdn], scrimpy, stingy [informal]

Type of: quality, relative quantity, wealth, wealthiness

Antonym: deficiency

Encyclopedia: Sufficiency