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n. Poverty; neediness.

n. extreme poverty or destitution

n. The condition of being indigent; lack of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty.

n. The condition of being indigent; insufficiency of means of subsistence; poverty; penury.

n. Synonyms Penury, Want, etc. See poverty.

n. a state of extreme poverty or destitution

"The poverty of the frontier, where all are engaged in a common struggle, and where a common sympathy and hearty cooperation lighten the burdens of each, is a very different poverty—different in kind, different in influence and effect—from that conscious and humiliating indigence which is every day forced to contrast itself with neighboring wealth on which it feels a sense of grinding dependence."

affluence   

poorness    poverty    impoverishment   

indigent   

beggary    mendicancy    mendicity   

need    poverty    destitution    privation    lack    want    penury    povert    indigency   

destitution    wretchedness    beggary    impoverishment    pauperism    inactivity    impotence    neediness    privation    inertness