sufficiency
Having just enough
Sufficiency is having enough of what's needed—neither excess nor shortage.
The word often appears in contexts of resources or capabilities: The sufficiency of our water supply is in question.
Self-sufficiency means providing for one's own needs without outside help.
Sufficient is the more common adjective form.
Furnish or stock
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- reservesResources held back
- stockpileAccumulated reserve supply
- allocationDistribution of shares
rationing · necessities · essentials · quota · allotment · subsistence · replenishment · stores
Barely meeting standards
- ampleFully sufficient, even excessive
- satisfactoryMeeting minimum requirements
- acceptableMeeting minimum standards
- enoughMeeting the requirement
passable · tolerable · decent · moderate · fair · serviceable · functional · reasonable
State of fulfilled desires
- completionAct of finishing
- realizationGrasping what's true
- attainmentSuccessful reaching of goal
- accomplishmentSuccessful completion of aim
achievement · consummation · fruition · satiation · satiety · plenitude · fullness · wholeness
State of fulfilled desires
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- simplicityLack of complexity
- serenityUndisturbed mental quietude
ease · well-being · tranquility · harmony · modesty · frugality · minimalism · ubuntu
Freedom from external control
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- resourcefulnessAbility to solve problems creatively
autarky · homesteading · off-grid · subsistence · self-sustaining · self-supporting · self-contained · self-determination
supply
Furnish or stock
allocation · rationing · necessities · essentials · quota · allotment · subsistence · replenishment · stores · buffer
adequate
Barely meeting standards
- ampleFully sufficient, even excessive
- satisfactoryMeeting minimum requirements
- acceptableMeeting minimum standards
enough · passable · tolerable · decent · moderate · fair · serviceable · functional · reasonable · competent
satisfaction
State of fulfilled desires
- completionAct of finishing
- realizationGrasping what's true
- attainmentSuccessful reaching of goal
accomplishment · achievement · consummation · fruition · satiation · satiety · plenitude · fullness · wholeness · quorum
satisfaction
State of fulfilled desires
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
- gratitudeThankfulness for kindness received
- simplicityLack of complexity
serenity · ease · well-being · tranquility · harmony · modesty · frugality · minimalism · ubuntu · hygge
independence
Freedom from external control
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
resourcefulness · autarky · homesteading · off-grid · subsistence · self-sustaining · self-supporting · self-contained · self-determination · sovereignty
- skillsskills, skill, ability, abilities, competencies
- data qualitiesaccuracy, completeness, consistency, reliability, validity
- Satiationfullness, satiety, repletion, appetite loss
- scriptureBible, New Testament, Old Testament, verses, passages
- simple livingsimple living, frugality, minimalism, decluttering, back-to-the-land
- adequacyadequate, enough, satisfactory, acceptable, passable
sufficiencyinsufficiency
Shortfall in amount needed
deficiency · inadequacy · lack · shortage · scarcity
sufficiencyexcess
Surplus beyond need
surplus · overabundance · superfluity · glut · plethora
sufficiencydependency
State of needing support
dependence · reliance · insufficiency · neediness · helplessness
- sufficient conditionWhat ensures a conclusion
- sufficient reasonComplete explanation for existence
sufficient, insufficient, sufficiently, insufficiency, insufficiently, self-sufficient, self-sufficiency, insufficiencies, self-sufficiently