sufficiency | Definition of sufficiency

Synonyms and Antonyms of sufficiency

the quality or state of meeting one's needs adequately

the sufficiency of the portions is such that you will leave the restaurant with a full stomach but without doggie bags

Synonyms of sufficiency

acceptability, adequacy, satisfactoriness

Words Related to sufficiency

appropriateness, correctness, fitness, goodness, properness, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitableness, tolerability

bountifulness, copiousness

excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus

abundance, amplitude, opulence, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plentitude, plenty

Near Antonyms of sufficiency

crunch, dearth, deficit, famine, lack, shortage

meagerness, paucity, poorness, poverty, rareness, rarity, scantiness, scantness, scarceness, scarcity, skimpiness

necessity, need, privation

Antonyms of sufficiency

inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiency, unsatisfactoriness