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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

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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.

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  • ABILITY
    The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • POWERABLE
    1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
  • AVERAGE
    That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. 2. Etym: A tariff or duty on goods, etc. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
  • AMPLENESS
    The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
  • ABUNDANCE
    An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
  • WEALTHINESS
    The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
  • WEALTHFUL
    Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. Sir T. More. -- Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
  • PROFUSION
    1. The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting. Thy vast profusion to the factious nobles Rowe. 2. Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities. Addison.
  • PLENTY
    Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundance; copiousness. "Plenty of corn and wine." Gen. xxvii. 28. "Promises Britain peace and plenty."
  • COMMONPLACE
    Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
  • COPIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden. Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance.
  • MEDIOCRITY
    1. The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." Bacon. 2. Moderation; temperance. Hooker.
  • POWERLESS
    Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
  • WEALTHILY
    In a wealthy manner; richly. I come to wive it wealthily in Padua. Shak.
  • COMMONPLACENESS
    The quality of being commonplace; commonness.
  • COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY
    1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. To make them act zealously is not in the
  • MEDIUM
    See PAPER (more info) 1. That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride
  • EXUBERANCE
    The state of being exuberant; an overflowing quantity; a copious or excessive production or supply; superabundance; richness; as, an exuberance of joy, of fancy, or of foliage. Syn. -- Abundance; superabundance; excess; plenty; copiousness;
  • POWER
    See FISH
  • ADORABILITY
    Adorableness.
  • AMENABILITY
    The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • EQUABILITY
    The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.
  • COMMENSURABILITY
    The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DEFLAGRABILITY
    The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.
  • IMMEABILITY
    Want of power to pass, or to permit passage; impassableness. Immeability of the juices. Arbuthnot.
  • INEVITABILITY
    Impossibility to be avoided or shunned; inevitableness. Shelford.
  • EFFUMABILITY
    The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. Boyle.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • TAMABILITY
    The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.
  • INSOCIABILITY
    The quality of being insociable; want of sociability; unsociability. Bp. Warburton.
  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • CANDLE POWER
    Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
  • INSURMOUNTABILITY
    The state or quality of being insurmountable.
  • REPEALABILITY
    The quality or state of being repealable.
  • INHERITABILITY
    The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
  • MUTABILITY
    The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation. Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world

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