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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
indigence
    n 1: 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]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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