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sufficience

sufficience noun: the condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.

Noun

sufficience (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiences)

  1. (obsolete) The condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
  2. (obsolete) Capability; competence.
    • He speaketh of the sufficience of the minde and of internall qualities.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Synonyms of sufficience

Forms of sufficience

pluralsufficiences

Origin of sufficience

From Old French sufficience, from Late Latin sufficientia.

Words formed from sufficience

Questions about sufficience

What does sufficience mean?
Sufficience means the condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
What part of speech is sufficience?
Sufficience is a noun.
What is the plural of sufficience?
The plural of sufficience is sufficiences.

Words near sufficience in the dictionary

  1. sufficer
  2. sufficers
  3. suffices
  4. sufficest
  5. sufficeth
  6. sufficience
  7. sufficiences
  8. sufficiencie
  9. sufficiencies
  10. sufficiency
  11. sufficient

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