1. Noun
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
2. Noun
Penuriousness; miserliness.
3. Noun
a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
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