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sufficiency

 noun
     
suf‧fi‧cien‧cy formal
1 [uncountable] the state of being or having enough:
The war has affected the country's economic sufficiency.
2

a sufficiency of something

a supply that is enough:
a sufficiency of raw materials
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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