Word of the Day: Indigence
PRONUNCIATION:
[in-di-juhns]
MEANING:
noun: A seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
ETYMOLOGY: late 14c., from O.Fr. indigence "indigence, need, privation" (13c.), from L. indigentia "need, want; insatiable desire," from indigentem (nom. indigens), prp. of indigere "to need," from indu "in, within" + egere "be in need, want," from PIE *eg- "to lack" (cf. O.N. ekla "want, lack," O.H.G. eccherode "thin, weak").
USAGE: Many people in New-York city live in severe indigence.
SYNONYMS: destitution, penury
ANTONYMS: wealth
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MEANING:
noun: A seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
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USAGE: Many people in New-York city live in severe indigence.
SYNONYMS: destitution, penury
ANTONYMS: wealth
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