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n. The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.

n. Deficiency in amount; scantiness: "the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul” ( Scott Turow).

n. Unproductiveness; infertility: the poverty of the soil.

n. Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.

n. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

n. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.

n. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.

n. Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness

n. The state or condition of being poor; need or scarcity of means of subsistence; needy circumstances; indigence; penury.

n. The quality of being poor; a lack of necessary or desirable elements, constituents, or qualities.

n. Lack of richness of tone; thinness (of sound).

n. Dearth; scantiness; small allowance.

n. Poor things; objects or productions of little value.

n. The poor; poor people collectively. Compare the quality, used for persons of quality.

n. Synonyms Poverty, Want, Indigence, Penury, Destitution, Pauperism, Need, neediness, necessitousness, privation, beggary. Poverty is a strong word, stronger than being poor; want is still stronger, indicating that one has not even the necessaries of life: indigence is often stronger than want, implying especially, also, the lack of those things to which one has been used and that befit one's station; penury is poverty that is severe to abjectness; destitution is the state of having absolutely nothing; pauperism is a poverty by which one is thrown upon public charity for support; need is a general word, definite only in suggesting the necessity for immediate relief. None of these words is limited to the lack of property, although that is naturally a prominent fact under each.

n. and Meagerness, jejuneness.

n. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

"The species of poverty, most esteemed by Religion, is _poverty of mind_."

wealth   

financial condition   

poorness    poor   

need    indigence    neediness    impecuniousness    deprivation    privation    pauperism    penury    pauperization    destitution   

scantiness    need    sparingness    beggary    indigence    jejuneness    lack    meagerness    want    penury   

antipoverty   

misery    ignorance    slavery    loneliness    hardship    sickness    corruption    hunger    humiliation    violence