Indigence

Definition: Indigence

Indigence

Noun

1. A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless".

Date "indigence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Etymology: Indigence \In"di*gence\, noun. [Latin expression indigentia: compare to the French expression indigence. See Indigent.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Indigence

Synonyms: beggary (n), need (n), pauperism (n), penury (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insufficiency	Emptiness, poorness; Adjective:; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes "; indigence; insolvency; (nonpayment).
Poverty	Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Indigence

English words defined with "indigence": beggary ♦ Indigency ♦ need, Neediness ♦ pauperism, penury, Poverty grass. (references)

Specialty definitions using "indigence": in forma pauperis ♦ Wittington. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Indigence" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (destitution, indigence, need, neediness, needness, paucity, pauperism, penury, poverty).

Author	Quotation
Jean de La BruyFre	Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Indigence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indigence" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Language		Translations for "indigence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		behoeftigheid (destitution, distress, need, penury). (various references)

Albanian		varfëri (beggary, hardship, infertility, manginess, misery, necessity, need, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, squalor, want), skamje (destitution, necessity, need, penury, poverty). (various references)

Arabic		‏فقر (beggar, destitution, impoverish, lack, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, ruin, want), ‏حاجة ملحة (demand, emergency), ‏عوز (destitution, distress, lack, misery, necessity, need, paucity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, privation, want). (various references)

Bulgarian		немотия (penury), нищета (beggary, degradation, deprivation, destitution, distress, extremity, misery, necessity, poverty). (various references)

Czech		nouze (deprivation, destitution, distress, necessities, need, needs, pinch, poverty, privation, scarcity, want). (various references)

Dutch		pauperisme (destitution, distress, need, penury), behoeftigheid (destitution, distress, need, penury). (various references)

Esperanto		senhaveco (destitution, distress, need, penury). (various references)

French		indigence. (various references)

German		armut (destitution, impecuniousness, lack, necessity, neediness, pennilessness, penury, poorness, poverty, privation), Dürftigkeit (flimsiness, meagerness, miserableness, poorness, scantiness, slenderness, sparseness, wretchedness). (various references)

Greek		ένδεια (destitution, necessitousness, needfulness, neediness, penury, poverty, want). (various references)

Hebrew		מסכ� ות (beggary, poverty, squalor, wretchedness), עו� י (meanness, misery, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, privation, want), �"לות (leanness, meanness, poorness, poverty), � צרכות (destitution, neediness). (various references)

Hungarian		szegénység (beggary, destitution, gutter, necessity, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, poorness, poverty), szûkölködés (privation). (various references)

Italian		indigenza (need, pauperism, penury, poverty), miseria (beggary, destitution, meanness, misery, misfortunes, pittance, poverty, troubles, want, wretchedness), meschinit� (destitution, paltriness, pettiness, poverty, shabbiness). (various references)

Manx		raghtanys (need, rigour, want), anverchys (poverty). (various references)

Pig Latin		indigenceay

Portuguese		indigência (destitution, misery, penury, peon, poorness, poverty rate), mediocremente. (various references)

Romanian		sãrãcie (baldness, barrenness, dearth, destitution, impecuniosity, meanness, misery, necessity, neediness, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, sterility, stringency, want), mizerie (atrocity, beggary, depth, distress, misery, pauperism, poorness, poverty, squalidity, squalor, troubles, want), lipsuri materiale. (various references)

Russian		нужда (beggary, destitution, dire necessity, distress, hardship, necessity, need, privation). (various references)

Scottish		uireasbhuidh (need, poverty, want), aimbeart (distress, poverty, want). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		siromaštvo (beggary, deprivation, destitution, pauperism, poorness, poverty), nemaština (distress, need, poverty). (various references)

Spanish		indigencia (destitution, distress, misery, necessity, need, penury, poverty, want). (various references)

Swedish		fattigdom (destitution, necessity, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty). (various references)

Turkish		yoksullluk, parasızlık (being without money, embarrassment, pennilessness, poverty), fakirlik (beggary, nudity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, want). (various references)

Ukranian		нужда (destitution, necessity, need, neediness, privation, want), злидні (beggarhood, beggarliness, beggary, destitution, distress, misery, need, neediness, penury, privation). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự nghèo khổ (wretchedness), sự bần cùng. (various references)

Welsh		angenoctid (want). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	indigentia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "indigence": indigences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Indigence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: idigene, Indienne, indigente, indigine, indigne, indignence, indugence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "indigence" (pronounced 'In"di*gence'): Centrifugence, Contingence, Effulgence, Egence, Emergence, Exigence, Indiligence, intelligence, Lingence, Misintelligence, Negligence, Prodigence, Pungence, Reemergence, Regence, resurgence, self-indulgence, submergence, Tangence, Unintelligence, Urgence. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-i-n-n"
	-1 letter: indigene.
	-2 letters: deicing, engined, indigen, needing.
	-3 letters: ceding, dicing, dieing, dining, edenic, ending, engine, ginned, indene, indign, niding.
	-4 letters: deice, deign, diene, dinge, genic, genie, genii, icing, indie, inned, niece.
	-5 letters: cede, cedi, cine, dene, deni, dice, dine, ding, edge, eide, geed, gene, gied, gien, iced, need, nene, nice, nide, nidi, nine.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-i-n-n"
	+1 letter: evidencing, indigences.
	+2 letters: interceding, undeceiving.
	+3 letters: differencing.
	+4 letters: credentialing, reconsidering.
	+5 letters: credentialling, decaffeinating, decentralizing, denuclearizing, disencumbering, underachieving.
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