Category:Sufficiency

Suf*fi"cien*cy, n. Etym: [l. sufficientia: cf. F. suffisance. See Suffice.]

1. The quality or state of being sufficient, or adequate to the end Proposed; adequacy. His sufficiency is such that he bestows and possesses, his plenty Being unexhausted. Boyle.

2. Qualification for any purpose; ability; capacity. A substitute or most allowed sufficiency. Shak. I am not so confident of my own sufficiency as not willingly to admit The counsel of others. Eikon basilike.

3. Adequate substance or means; competence. "an elegant sufficiency." Thomson.

4. Supply equal to wants; ample stock or fund.

5. Conceit; self-confidence; self-sufficiency. Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. Sir w. Temple.