self-sufficiency

English

Etymology

self- +‎ sufficiency

Noun

self-sufficiency (uncountable)

1. The condition of being self-sufficient.
   • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] 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

• Asturian: autosuficiencia f
• Catalan: autosuficiència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自給自足／自给自足 (zh) (zìjǐzìzú)

• Czech: soběstačnost f
• Danish: selvforsyning c
• Dutch: zelfvoorziening (nl) f
• Esperanto: memsufiĉo
• Finnish: omavaraisuus (fi) (in terms of physical resources); itseriittoisuus (fi) (mentally)
• French: autosuffisance (fr) f, autonomie (fr) f
• Galician: autosuficiencia f
• Georgian: თვითკმარობა (tvitḳmaroba), დამოუკიდებლობა (damouḳidebloba), ავტარკია (avṭarḳia)
• German: Selbstversorgung (de) f, Nahrungsmittelselbstversorgung f (food), Nahrungsmittel-Selbstversorgung f (food), Autarkie (de) f, Selbstgenügsamkeit (de) f, Selbstständigkeit (de) f, wirtschaftliche Unabhängigkeit f (economic)
• Greek: αυτάρκεια (el) f (aftárkeia)

  Ancient Greek: αὐτάρκεια f (autárkeia)

• Hungarian: önellátás (hu)
• Indonesian: swa sembada
• Interlingua: autosustenentia
• Irish: neamhthuilleamaíocht f
• Italian: autosufficienza (it) f
• Japanese: 自給自足 (ja) (じきゅうじそく, jikyūjisoku)
• Korean: 자급자족 (ko) (jageupjajok)
• Persian: اتکای به نفس (ettekâ-ye be nafs)
• Polish: samowystarczalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: autossuficiência f, autonomia (pt) f
• Russian: самодоста́точность (ru) f (samodostátočnostʹ), самостоя́тельность (ru) f (samostojátelʹnostʹ), автоно́мность (ru) f (avtonómnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: fèin-fhoghainteachd f
• Slovak: sebestačnosť f
• Spanish: autosuficiencia (es) f
• Swedish: självförsörjning c
• Ukrainian: самодоста́тність f (samodostátnistʹ)