Definition of "self-sufficing" []

• Sufficing for one's self or for itself, without needing external aid; self-sufficient. (adjective)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one."
• "In fact, Steward believed gay men were loners - who "should live alone and learn to like it, and to be self-sufficing" - despite the community that saved his papers, made a pilgrimage to him in his old age and produced this fascinating slice of American history."
• "What constitutes a polis is an association of households and clans in a good life, for the sake of attaining a perfect and self-sufficing existence."