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suf·fi·cien·cy
 sufficiency
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- pronunciation:
- s
fI
shn
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
sufficiencies |
| definition 1: |
the state or condition of being sufficient.
- antonyms:
- insufficiency
- similar words:
- competence
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| definition 2: |
an adequate number or amount.
a sufficiency of food for the party |
| related words: |
capacity, competence, enough, plenty |
adjective + (n.)sufficiency
circumstantial, economic, exclusive, human, ideal, initial, natural, nuclear, private, reasonable, social, utter
verb + (n.)sufficiency
achieve, argue, challenge, determine, emerge, grant, process, promote, provide, relate
noun + (n.)sufficiency
adequacy,
americanism,
beauty,
belief,
claim,
concept,
concern,
contrast,
data,
emphasis,
employee,
ethic,
evidence,
excellence,
food,
goal,
material,
measure,
movement,
painting,
principle,
privilege,
rating,
reason,
relation,
resident,
rule,
ruling,
scarcity,
self,
standard,
storage,
support,
theme,
threshold,
virtue
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The word sufficiency
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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