self-sufficiency
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English
Etymology
From self- + sufficiency.
Noun
self-sufficiency (uncountable)
- The condition of being self-sufficient.
- 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Pride and Prejudice: , volume III, London: for T Egerton, , →OCLC, pages 60–61:
- “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.”
Translations
condition of being self-sufficient
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