Poverty
WordNet
noun
(1) The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
WiktionaryText
Etymology
From , , from , from + . Cognates include pauper, "poor", French pauvreté.
Noun
- The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
- Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.