Words that rhyme with sufficiency

• aberrancy 0
  n 1: a state or condition markedly different from the norm [syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance]
• adjacency 0
  n 1: the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: adjacency, contiguity, contiguousness]
• agency 0
  n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn: agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority] 2: a business that serves other businesses 3: the state of being in action or exerting power; "the agency of providence"; "she has free agency" 4: the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent [syn: representation, delegacy, agency] 5: how a result is obtained or an end is achieved; "a means of control"; "an example is the best agency of instruction"; "the true way to success" [syn: means, agency, way]
• astringency 0
  n 1: a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker [syn: astringency, astringence] 2: the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids [syn: astringency, stypsis]
• cogency 0
  n 1: persuasive relevance 2: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour]
• coherency 0
  n 1: the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] [ant: incoherence, incoherency] 2: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: coherence, coherency]
• complacency 0
  n 1: the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting" [syn: complacency, complacence, self-complacency, self- satisfaction]
• conservancy 0
  n 1: a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river 2: the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.
• contingency 0
  n 1: a possible event or occurrence or result [syn: eventuality, contingency, contingence] 2: the state of being contingent on something
• conversancy 0
  n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy]
• counterinsurgency 0
  n 1: actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn: pacification, counterinsurgency]
• decency 0
  n 1: the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality [ant: indecency] 2: the quality of being polite and respectable
• deficiency 0
  n 1: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, deficiency, want] 2: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency] [ant: adequacy, sufficiency]
• delinquency 0
  n 1: nonpayment of a debt when due 2: a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities" [syn: delinquency, dereliction, willful neglect] 3: an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor [syn: delinquency, juvenile delinquency]
• efficiency 0
  n 1: the ratio of the output to the input of any system 2: skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort; "she did the work with great efficiency" [ant: inefficiency]
• emergency 0
  n 1: a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency" [syn: emergency, exigency, pinch] 2: a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency" 3: a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage [syn: hand brake, emergency, emergency brake, parking brake]
• exigency 0
  n 1: a pressing or urgent situation; "the health-care exigency" 2: a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency" [syn: emergency, exigency, pinch]
• frequency 0
  n 1: the number of occurrences within a given time period; "the frequency of modulation was 40 cycles per second"; "the frequency of his seizures increased as he grew older" [syn: frequency, frequence, oftenness] 2: the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations [syn: frequency, relative frequency] 3: the number of observations in a given statistical category [syn: frequency, absolute frequency]
• incessancy 0
  n 1: the quality of something that continues without end or interruption [syn: continuousness, ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness]
• indecency 0
  n 1: the quality of being indecent [ant: decency] 2: an indecent or improper act [syn: indecency, impropriety]
• inefficiency 0
  n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency [ant: efficiency]
• infrequency 0
  n 1: noteworthy scarcity [syn: rarity, rareness, infrequency]
• insolvency 0
  n 1: the lack of financial resources [ant: solvency]
• insufficiency 0
  n 1: a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy] 2: (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally 3: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency] [ant: adequacy, sufficiency]
• insurgency 0
  n 1: an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict [syn: insurgency, insurgence]
• irrelevancy 0
  n 1: the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: irrelevance, irrelevancy] [ant: relevance, relevancy]
• proficiency 0
  n 1: the quality of having great facility and competence 2: skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency" [syn: proficiency, technique]
• pungency 0
  n 1: wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" [syn: pungency, bite] 2: a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine" [syn: pungency, bite, sharpness, raciness]
• regency 0
  n 1: the period of time during which a regent governs 2: the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity 3: the office of a regent
• relevancy 0
  n 1: the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy] [ant: irrelevance, irrelevancy]
• stringency 0
  n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit [syn: stringency, tightness] 2: conscientious attention to rules and details [syn: strictness, stringency]
• tangency 0
  n 1: the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing 2: (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts" [syn: contact, tangency]
• translucency 0
  n 1: the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely [syn: translucence, translucency, semitransparency]
• trenchancy 0
  n 1: keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect [syn: incisiveness, trenchancy]
• urgency 0
  n 1: the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity 2: pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need" 3: an urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs" 4: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity, urgency, urging]
• c 0
  adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c] 3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid] 4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C] 5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C] 6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C] 8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c] 12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C]
• nascency 0
  n 1: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry]
• recency 0
  n 1: a time immediately before the present [syn: recency, recentness] 2: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago [syn: recency, recentness]
• errancy 0
  n 1: (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility; "he denies the errancy of the Catholic Church" 2: fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err [ant: inerrancy]
• divergency 0
  n 1: an infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence, divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency] 2: the act of moving away in different direction from a common point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines" [syn: divergence, divergency]
• innocency 0
  n 1: an innocent quality or thing or act; "the innocencies of childhood"
• recusancy 0
  n 1: refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England
• incoherency 0
  n 1: lack of cohesion or clarity or organization [syn: incoherence, incoherency] [ant: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] 2: nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible [syn: incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility]
• cie 0
• reagency 0
• subagency 0

See also sufficiency definition and sufficiency synonyms