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indigence

noun as in poorness

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William Booth’s famous poverty maps, which the social reformer used to catalogue affluence and indigence in late Victorian London, don’t extend this far south.

But there are many more people balancing precariously on the verge of indigence.

It must be a dreadful situation for any man to have to choose between roguery and indigence.

Their kings are without power and without glory; their subjects languish in indigence and wretchedness.

Banished from his native country and without any resource, Diogenes was reduced to great indigence.

And a life of simplicity and indigence, which moderates the sexual desires, now seems to me good.

Ordinary minds avoid, as much as possible, recurring to past periods of indigence and inferiority of station.

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What are other ways to say indigence?

Indigence denotes a severely impoverished condition marked by hardship and the lack of any of life’s comforts: reduced to a life of indigence. Destitution, a somewhat literary word, implies a state of having absolutely none of the necessities of life: widespread destitution in countries at war. Poverty denotes serious lack of the means for proper existence: living in a state of extreme poverty.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to indigence, such as: destitution, and penury.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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