noun
- The capacity to manage one's own affairs, make one's own judgments, and provide for oneself: independence, self-determination, self-reliance. See dependence/independence.
| Thesaurus: self-sufficiency |
noun
| WordNet: self-sufficiency |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
personal independence
Synonyms: autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance
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