sufficiency

[ suh-fish-uh n-see ]

/ səˈfɪʃ ən si /

the state or fact of being sufficient; adequacy.

a sufficient number or amount; enough.

adequate provision or supply, especially of wealth.

Origin of sufficiency

1485–95; < Late Latin sufficientia; see sufficient, -ency

o·ver·suf·fi·cien·cy, noun pre·suf·fi·cien·cy, noun su·per·suf·fi·cien·cy, noun

No more salt should be used than a sufficiency to preserve the meat, as an excess hardens the meat.

Housekeeping in Old Virginia |Marion Cabell Tyree
Presently I was able to tell him that I was about to be married, being in a position which seemed to promise a sufficiency.

The Orange Girl |Walter Besant
They might have been exciting, however, if we had chosen to drink a sufficiency of them.

The Innocents Abroad |Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
They generally found a sufficiency of water, of grazing and of game.

Christopher Carson |John S. C. Abbott

Richard had the sufficiency of the cat, John the dependence of a dog; John had the cat's secretiveness, Richard the dog's dash.

The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay |Maurice Hewlett

sufficiency

/ (səˈfɪʃənsɪ) /

the quality or condition of being sufficient

an adequate amount or quantity, as of income

archaic efficiency