Hypertext Webster Gateway: "indigence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Indigence \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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
indigence
n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: {need}, {penury}, {beggary}, {pauperism}]
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