| Pronunciation: | | 'indijuns
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| Matching Terms: | | indigency
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| | Definition: | | [n] a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" |
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| | Synonyms: | | beggary, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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| | See Also: | | impoverishment, poorness, poverty |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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