indigence
noun
[ ˈɪndɪdʒ(ə)ns ]
• a state of extreme poverty; destitution.
• "he did valuable work towards the relief of indigence"
Similar:
poverty,
penury,
impoverishment,
impecuniousness,
impecuniosity,
destitution,
pennilessness,
privation,
hand-to-mouth existence,
pauperism,
insolvency,
bankruptcy,
ruin,
ruination,
need,
neediness,
want,
dire straits,
deprivation,
disadvantage,
hardship,
distress,
financial distress,
difficulties,
beggary,
mendicancy,
vagrancy,
pauperdom,
