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Definition of Poverty
1. Noun. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
Generic synonyms: Financial Condition
Specialized synonyms: Deprivation, Neediness, Privation, Want, Destitution, Indigence, Need, Pauperism, Pauperization, Penury, Impecuniousness, Pennilessness, Penuriousness
Derivative terms: Poor, Poor
Antonyms: Wealth
Definition of Poverty
1. n. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
Definition of Poverty
1. Noun. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. ¹
2. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Poverty
1. the state of being poor [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poverty
Literary usage of Poverty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1920)
"But most of the differences of opinion appear, on analysis, to be due chiefly to
a different understanding of the term, poverty. Those who regard poverty as ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The remedies and preventives of poverty are as numerous and various as the causes.
... While a large proportion of the individual causes of poverty are ..."
3. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2006)
"poverty and Access to Basic Water Services Despite on-going efforts aimed at
rural development and poverty alleviation, poverty in Mexico is widespread. ..."
4. Oecd Economic Surveys: Mexico (2005)
"Therefore, the education system is central in Mexico to reduce income inequalities
and reduce poverty. Equity in education is a wide concept that covers ..."
5. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"He who seeks to attain the height of poverty must, in a sense, renounce not only
... His prayer to Christ for poverty is a curiously earnest rhapsody. ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Among the followers of perfection, the spirit of poverty was manifested from the
... But there was at that time no express vow of poverty, and no legal ..."
7. Annual Report (1901)
"We are often told that poverty is due to three chief causes: lack of employment,
... If there be a more fundamental cause of poverty, underlying all others, ..."
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