poverty
The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
Other meanings
A deficiency of something needed or desired
“poverty of soil”
Related words
- antipoverty
- nonpoverty
- povertyism
- povo
- ultrapoverty
- digital poverty
- furniture poverty
- hygiene poverty
- energy poverty
- period poverty
- poverty line
- poverty of the stimulus
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "paupertās".
Where this comes from
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