sufficiency.

The state of being enough to meet a relevant purpose, requirement or condition.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• sufficiency of evidence
• sufficiency of resources

On the page

The sufficiency of the evidence depended on the claim it was meant to support.

Resource sufficiency was assessed for the planned task rather than every possible expansion.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.