Indigence

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

Noun

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indigence - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" Synonyms: pauperism, pauperization, penury, beggary, need

bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness, necessitousness, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch