Quantity
Synonyms for sufficiency
Synonyms for sufficiency: enough and adequacy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for sufficiency
- enoughnoun, in the sense "an adequate quantity"
- adequacynoun, in the sense "the quality of being sufficient for the end in view"
Two senses of sufficiency, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
an adequate quantity
There is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country.
The true synonym
enough
Same sentence, swapped: There is more than a enough of lawyers in this country.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- plurality
- cypher
- susceptibility
the quality of being sufficient for the end in view
He questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence.
The true synonym
adequacy
Same sentence, swapped: He questioned the adequacy of human intelligence.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot sufficiency is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- insufficiency
- specialness
- uselessness
Where sufficiency turns up in the game
sufficiency is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where sufficiency is the trap
- naughtnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is nothing, in the sense "a quantity of no importance", so sufficiency is there to be ruled out.
- inadequacynoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is deficiency, in the sense "lack of an adequate quantity or number", and sufficiency is on the board beside it.
Play sufficiency
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sufficiency reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other quantity words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sufficiency carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.