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sufficiency

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[ US /səˈfɪʃənsi/ ]
[ UK /səfˈɪʃənsi/ ]
NOUN
  1. an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose
    there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country
    enough is as good as a feast
  2. the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
    he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence
  3. sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations
    her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency

How To Use sufficiency In A Sentence

  • We can use these faculties to tend the planet and all its inhabitants, by means of inclusive social practices and arrangements that ensure a loving sufficiency for all.
  • Hormonal factors appear to play a conflicting role in the regulation of salt and water balance under conditions of pulmonary insufficiency.
  • Current areas of investigation include neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility, airway smooth muscle growth and cell surface receptor expression; regulation of postnatal development and growth of the lung; developmental effects of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative lung injury on airway and pulmonary vascular reactivity; biochemical and molecular regulation of membrane ion channels in cystic fibrosis; maturational changes in chest wall and airway function; pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease; the physiological basis of ventilator dependence in children with chronic respiratory insufficiency; and developmental aspects of respiratory mechanics and ventilatory control. Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine
  • The whole idea of "self sufficiency" is fraught with peril. Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola
  • Her motherlessness plays no small role in this; her obstinate self-sufficiency evidently compensates for her father's meekness and her mother's absence.
  • Defensive security is defined as a sufficiency of military and economic potentials of the state to repulse possible threats to its independence and territorial integrity.
  • Edit: I asked Dr. Ukrainsky in an email what he meant by "Nedo" and this was his response: "Russian prefix "nedo" insufficiency sensu lato means, that this ceratopsian has lack: nasal horn absent. Insufficiency!?!
  • But the Yates case revealed a deep gender divide about the isolation and stress of family and motherhood in a society that extols self-sufficiency as its premiere human value.
  • The aldactone and male pattern balding may actually see as unused unless you frequency the initial similarity and feeling your insufficiency has prescribed. Wii-volution
  • In most cases the most prominent programmes have been to support agricultural production in the interests of national self-sufficiency or of export requirements. Rural Land-Use Planning in Developed Nations
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