Entry Word: sufficiency

Function: noun

Meaning: 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 acceptability, adequacy, satisfactoriness

Related Words appropriateness, correctness, fitness, goodness, properness, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitableness; bountifulness, copiousness; excess, overabundance, oversupply, surfeit, surplus; abundance, amplitude, plenitude, plenty

Near Antonyms lack, want; dearth, shortage; meagerness, paucity, poorness, poverty, rareness, rarity, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, skimpiness; necessity, need, privation

Antonyms inadequacy, insufficiency