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Meanings of sufficiency in English

Portuguese
adequação

The quality of being sufficient for the end in view.

      adequação
      Portuguese
      suficiência

      An adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose.

            suficiência
            Russian
            достаточность
            Spanish
            suficiencia
            Catalan
            sudiciència

            In logic, property of a statement whose truth allows one to conclude the truth of another given statement.

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                достаточность
                Usage of sufficiency in English
                1
                Energy imports, including sufficiency, impact on economy, and influence on bilateral relations.
                The Guardian
                2
                Additionally, the decline undermines the household and national food security and self-sufficiency.
                The South African
                3
                It provides support and friendship, promotes self-sufficiency and works for social justice.
                The Irish Times
                4
                The items we're buying online point towards a real desire for self-sufficiency.
                News.com.au
                5
                Commodity and mass production replaced by restoration of the commons and self-sufficiency.
                Ebony
                6
                Proud by nature, Afghans yearn to recover national self-respect and self sufficiency.
                Reuters
                7
                Necessities you have in sufficiency and you lack no measure of esteem.
                Dio's Rome, Volume 2 / An Historical Narrative Originally Compos...
                8
                The next requisite for the admissibility of a hypothesis is its sufficiency.
                The Critique of Pure Reason
                9
                Nor were they in this doleful condition allowed a sufficiency of water.
                American Prisoners of the Revolution
                10
                I've heard him joking to friends that two is an ample sufficiency.
                The sealed letter
                11
                Eritrea has traditionally shunned aid and assistance, preferring the mantra of self-sufficiency.
                Reuters
                12
                That meant they sold wool for cash rather than strove for self-sufficiency.
                The Rational Optimist
                13
                Of heavy reading the reader of to-day no doubt has a sufficiency.
                Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century / Great Deeds of Men an...
                14
                We may see here an unfolding of the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ.
                Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
                15
                They did not keep a sufficiency of servants at the Hôtel Railleux.
                Max
                16
                And so they demonstrated the sufficiency of wisdom for happiness as follows--
                A Guide to Stoicism
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