self-sufficiency

Definitions

The condition of being self-sufficient.

uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““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.””

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