English > impoverishment: 2 senses > noun 1, state| Meaning | The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. |
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| Synonyms | poverty, poorness |
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| Narrower | destitution | A state without friends or money or prospects |
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| impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness | A state of lacking money |
| indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization | A state of extreme / extreme poverty or destitution |
| privation, want, deprivation, neediness | A state of extreme / extreme poverty |
| Broader | financial condition | The condition of (corporate or personal) finances |
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| Opposite | wealth, wealthiness | The state of being rich and affluent |
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| Spanish | desabrigo, empobrecimiento, inopia, miseria, pauperismo, pobretería, pobreza |
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| Catalan | empobriment, fretura, misèria, pobre, pobresa |
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