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SELF-SUFFICIENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-sufficiency mean?
• SELF-SUFFICIENCY (noun)
The noun SELF-SUFFICIENCY has 1 sense:
1. personal independence
Familiarity information: SELF-SUFFICIENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Personal independence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
autonomy; self-direction; self-reliance; self-sufficiency
Hypernyms ("self-sufficiency" is a kind of...):
independence; independency (freedom from control or influence of another or others)
Derivation:
self-sufficient (able to provide for your own needs without help from others)
Context examples
They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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