Grammatical class
Noun
suffisance
sufficiency (quality or condition of being sufficient)
Details
Syllables
suf-fi-san-ce
Phonetics
sy.fi.zɑ̃s
Grammatical class
Noun
Freq. (books)
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Sentences
Sa suffisance ne va pas lui gagner beaucoup d'amis.
His complacency won't make him many friends.
Entre colonisateur et colonisé, il n’y a de place que pour la corvée, l’intimidation, la pression, la police, l’impôt, le vol, le viol, les cultures obligatoires, le mépris, la méfiance, la morgue, la suffisance, la muflerie, des élites décérébrées, des masses avilies.
Between the colonizer and the colonized, there is place only for the corvee, intimidation, pressuring, police, tax, robbery, rape, obligatory cultivation, contempt, distrust, the morgue, arrogance, boorishness, decerebrated elites, the degraded masses.
La suffisance est l'une des qualités humaines les plus rebutantes.
Self-righteousness is one of the most off-putting human qualities.