'Pauperism' definitions:
Definition of 'pauperism'
(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 'Pauperism'
From: GCIDE
- Pauperism \Pau"per*ism\, n. [Cf. F. paup['e]risme.] The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community. --Whatly. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See Poverty. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pauperism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bare cupboard,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- deprivation,
- destitution,
- empty purse,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impecuniousness,
- impoverishment,
- indigence,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- moneylessness,
- necessitousness,
- necessity,
- need,
- neediness,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- privation,
- want