indigence

Signification (Anglais)

Extreme poverty or destitution.

Concepts

indigence

pauvreté

paupérisme

misère

requérir

dénuement

pauvre

manque

nécessité

besoin

Opposé de

affluence

Synonymes

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

Traductions

behoeftigheid

Armut

indigencia

indigenza

Not

Elend

indigência

Dürftigkeit

indigentia

miseria

πενία

pauperisme

ένδεια

armoede

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɪndɪd͡ʒəns/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.