sufficience
English
Etymology
From Old French sufficience, from Late Latin sufficientia.
Noun
sufficience (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiences)
- (obsolete) The condition or quality of being sufficient; sufficiency.
- (obsolete) Capability; competence.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- He speaketh of the sufficience of the minde and of internall qualities.
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Synonyms
- sufficiency