'Indigence' definitions:
Definition of 'indigence'
From: WordNet
noun
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]
Definition of 'Indigence'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'indigence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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