self-sufficiency en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English sufficiency English self-sufficiency From self- + sufficiency.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The condition of being self-sufficient.
“For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I never could perceive any thing extraordinary. 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.”
1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 60–61:
Translations (47)
de Selbstgenügsamkeit (condition of being self-sufficient) · uk самодоста́тність (condition of being self-sufficient) · nl zelfvoorziening (condition of being self-sufficient) · fi itseriittoisuus (condition of being self-sufficient) · it autosufficienza (condition of being self-sufficient) · cmn 自給自足 /自给自足 (condition of being self-sufficient) · hu önellátás (condition of being self-sufficient) · da selvforsyning (condition of being self-sufficient) · ka დამოუკიდებლობა (condition of being self-sufficient) · ru самодоста́точность (condition of being self-sufficient) · id swa sembada (condition of being self-sufficient) · ca autosuficiència (condition of being self-sufficient) · eo memsufiĉo (condition of being self-sufficient) · el αυτάρκεια (condition of being self-sufficient) · cs soběstačnost (condition of being self-sufficient) · de Autarkie (condition of being self-sufficient) · fa اتکای به نفس (condition of being self-sufficient) · es autosuficiencia (condition of being self-sufficient) · pl samowystarczalność (condition of being self-sufficient) · ast autosuficiencia (condition of being self-sufficient) · fr autonomie (condition of being self-sufficient) · ka ავტარკია (condition of being self-sufficient) · grc αὐτάρκεια (condition of being self-sufficient) · ka თვითკმარობა (condition of being self-sufficient) · de wirtschaftliche Unabhängigkeit (condition of being self-sufficient) · hi स्वावलंब (condition of being self-sufficient) · ga neamhthuilleamaíocht (condition of being self-sufficient) · ia autosustenentia (condition of being self-sufficient) · de Selbstversorgung (condition of being self-sufficient) · ja 自給自足 (condition of being self-sufficient) · fi omavaraisuus (condition of being self-sufficient) · gd fèin-fhoghainteachd (condition of being self-sufficient) · de Nahrungsmittelselbstversorgung (condition of being self-sufficient) · sv självförsörjning (condition of being self-sufficient) · gl autosuficiencia (condition of being self-sufficient) · hi आत्मनिर्भरता (condition of being self-sufficient) · ko 자급자족 (condition of being self-sufficient) · de Selbstständigkeit (condition of being self-sufficient) · de Nahrungsmittel-Selbstversorgung (condition of being self-sufficient) · bg самодоста́тъчност (condition of being self-sufficient) · fr autosuffisance (condition of being self-sufficient) · bg самостоя́телност (condition of being self-sufficient) · sk sebestačnosť (condition of being self-sufficient) · ru автоно́мность (condition of being self-sufficient) · ru самостоя́тельность (condition of being self-sufficient) · pt autonomia (condition of being self-sufficient) · pt autossuficiência (condition of being self-sufficient)