self-sufficiency
/ˌsɛlfsəˈfɪʃnsi
/noun [mass noun]
The quality or condition of being self-sufficient: a means of developing economic self-sufficiency...
- Suffering insults us by calling into question our self-sufficiency and integrity as individuals.
- This approach rejects the autonomy and self-sufficiency of neoclassical economics.
- The rules of self-sufficiency were changed yet again as oxygen was pumped in to prevent brain damage.
Synonyms
independence, self-reliance, self-support, self-sustenance, self-standing
rare autarky
- self-medication
- self-medicator
- self-mockery
- self-mocking
- self-mockingly
- self-mortification
- self-motion
- self-motivated
- self-motivating
- self-motivation
- self-moving
- self-murder
- self-murderer
- self-mutilation
- self-named
- self-neglect
- selfness
- self-observation
- self-obsessed
- self-obsession
- self-opinion
- self-opinionated
- self-parodic
- self-parody
- self-parodying