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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a state of extreme poverty or destitution;
- Example: "their indigence appalled him"
- Example: "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
[syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Indigence \In"di*gence\, n. [L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence. See Indigent.] The condition of being indigent; lack of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless indigence. --Cowper. Syn: Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

indigence n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "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