Indigence

Noun

 * 1) extreme poverty or destitution

Synonyms

 * indigency

Antonyms

 * affluence

Related terms

 * indigent

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

Etymology
, late 14th century, from indigence: (13th century), from  indigentia:, from indigentem:, form of indigere: from indu: + egere:.

Only relation to antonym affluence: is common Latinate suffix.

Translations

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