efficiencies

NOUN

adeptness, effectiveness

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ability adaptability capability competence energy expertise performance productivity readiness skill talent

STRONG

abundance address adequacy capableness competency completeness economy effectualness efficacy facility faculty know-how potency power powerfulness productiveness proficiency prowess quantity resourcefulness response skillfulness suitability suitableness thoroughness

Antonyms

STRONGEST

idleness ignorance impotence inability inadequacy incapability incapacity incompetence ineptness weakness

STRONG

disability inefficiency lack

WEAK

helplessness ineffectiveness

Example Sentences

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As for sufficiencies, D. Hamilton, in his dying speech, prays that Charles II. may exceed both the virtues and sufficiencies of his father.

From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Johnson, Samuel

He thought of his own early studies and of his own early self- sufficiencies.

From Bertram Cope's Year by Fuller, Henry Blake

It may easily be conceived how "sufficiencies" was, by an inarticulate speaker, or inattentive hearer, confounded with "sufficiency as", and how "abled", a word very unusual, was changed into "able".

From Preface to Shakespeare by Johnson, Samuel

I therefore suspect that the Authour wrote thus, —Then no more remains, But that to your sufficiencies your worth is abled, And let them work.

From Preface to Shakespeare by Johnson, Samuel

But that to your sufficiencies your worth is abled Johnson conj.

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge