sufficience

English

Etymology

From Old French sufficience, from Late Latin sufficientia.

Noun

sufficience (countable and uncountable, plural sufficiences)

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

     He speaketh of the sufficience of the minde and of internall qualities.

Synonyms

• sufficiency