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noun, feminine

suffisance

/sy.fi.zɑ̃s/

noun, feminine/sy.fi.zɑ̃s/plural: suffisances

sufficiency (quality or condition of being sufficient); self-importance, vanity

Entre colonisateur et colonisé, il n’y a de place que pour la corvée, l'intimidation, la pression, la police, l'impôt, le vol, le viol, les cultures obligatoires, le mépris, la méfiance, la morgue, la suffisance, la muflerie, des élites décérébrées, des masses avilies.Between the colonizer and the colonized, there is place only for the corvee, intimidation, pressuring, police, tax, robbery, rape, obligatory cultivation, contempt, distrust, the morgue, arrogance, boorishness, decerebrated elites, the degraded masses.

From Middle French, derived from suffisant in the 14th century.

suffisance — French Dictionary | Passage