indigence

Betekenis (Engels)

Extreme poverty or destitution.

Teenoorgestelde van

affluence

Sinonieme

poverty

destitution

penury

need

want

distress

pauperism

poorness

extreme poverty

privation

pauperization

lack

neediness

beggary

wretchedness

empty-handedness

adversity

necessitousness

danger

❗

deficiency

deprivation

impecuniousness

impoverishment

inadequacy

misery

necessity

needfulness

pennilessness

requirement

scarcity

straitened circumstances

Vertalings

indigence

behoeftigheid

pauvreté

Armut

indigenza

indigencia

Not

indigentia

miseria

armoede

Elend

Dürftigkeit

misère

ένδεια

πενία

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɪndɪd͡ʒəns/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: indigence

In summary

From Middle English indigence, late 14th century, from Old French indigence (13th century), from Latin indigentia, from indigentem, form of indigēre (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egēre (“be in need, want”).
Only relation to antonym affluence is common Latinate suffix + -ence.