- poverty, poorness, impoverishment - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
--1 is a kind of financial condition, economic condition
--1 has particulars:privation, want, deprivation; destitution; indigence, need, penury, beggary, pauperism, pauperization; impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness - pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment - the act of making someone poor
--2 is a kind of privation, deprivation
Derived forms: verb impoverish1, verb impoverish2