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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. [ 1913 Webster] His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty being unexhausted. -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity. [ 1913 Webster] A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit the counsel of others. -- Eikon Basilike. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Adequate substance or means; competence. " An elegant sufficiency." -- Thomson. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Conceit; self- confidence; self- sufficiency. [ 1913 Webster] Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. -- Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster] 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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