Indigence

['ɪndɪdʒ(ə)ns]

Definition

(noun.) a state of extreme poverty or destitution; 'their indigence appalled him'; 'a general state of need exists among the homeless'.

Typed by Clarissa--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.

Edited by Abraham

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Poverty, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, need, necessity, privation, distress.

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