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synonyms for self sufficiency

  • ability
  • autonomy
  • self-determination
  • self-government
  • self-reliance
  • self-rule
  • self-sufficiency
  • separation
  • sovereignty
  • aptitude
  • autarchy
  • license
  • qualification
  • home rule
On this page you'll find 139 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to self sufficiency, such as: ability, autonomy, self-determination, self-government, self-reliance, and self-rule.

antonyms for self sufficiency

MOST RELEVANT
  • dependence
  • inaptitude
  • subordination
  • depression
  • disappointment
  • dissatisfaction
  • gloom
  • melancholy
  • misery
  • pain
  • sadness
  • sorrow
  • trouble
  • unhappiness
  • woe
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How to use self sufficiency in a sentence

David had replied, in that short tone of self-sufficiency which conveys so much more than the syllable would seem to warrant.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNE
One does not hate a youngster seven years one's junior merely because he is a mass of inexperience and self-sufficiency.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONS
Humble and modest in the presence of a master-mind, he stood up proudly and boldly against foolish arrogance and self-sufficiency.
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES WITH FAMILY LETTERS AND NOTES ON MUSICCHARLES GOUNOD
Their ignorance, however, is not equal to their self-sufficiency.
THE ARENAVARIOUS
You lack the quality of self-sufficiency that is the characteristic of the higher critical faculties.
MURDER IN ANY DEGREEOWEN JOHNSON
To one and all she paid a tribute of admiration, but the expression on the face was of concentrated self-sufficiency.
FLAMING JUNEMRS. GEORGE DE HORNE VAIZEY
"But you haven't told us the plan," said Ibbotson, not particularly pleased with the self-sufficiency of his little companion.
DOWN THE RHINEOLIVER OPTIC
Even the vision of economic self-sufficiency in Central Europe had rifts in it.
HARPER'S PICTORIAL LIBRARY OF THE WORLD WAR, VOLUME XIIVARIOUS
Mabel had been religiously educated; equally without exaggeration and without self-sufficiency.
THE PATHFINDERJAMES FENIMORE COOPER
A crowning proof of the insolent self-sufficiency of the English temper!
THEODORE WATTS-DUNTONJAMES DOUGLAS
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