About The Word Indigence
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Indigence
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What's The Definition Of Indigence?
[n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Indigence: beggary | need | pauperism | pauperization | penury Related Terms | Find terms related to Indigence: bare cupboard | bare subsistence | beggarliness | beggary | deprivation | destitution | empty purse | grinding poverty | gripe | hand-to-mouth existence | homelessness | impecuniousness | impoverishment | lack | mendicancy | moneylessness | necessitousness | necessity | need | neediness | pauperism | pauperization | penury | pinch | privation | want See Also | impoverishment | poorness | poverty Indigence In Webster's Dictionary \In"di*gence\, n. [L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence.
See {Indigent}.]
The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of
comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless,
indigence. --Cowper.
Syn: Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation;
lack. See {Poverty}.
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