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)

10890

Freq. (movies)

19153

Freq. (news)

22411

Sentences

Sa suffisance ne va pas lui gagner beaucoup d'amis.

His complacency won't make him many friends.

B2

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.

C2

La suffisance est l'une des qualités humaines les plus rebutantes.

Self-righteousness is one of the most off-putting human qualities.

C2