Associations to the word «Indigence»

Wiktionary

INDIGENCE, noun. Extreme poverty or destitution

Dictionary definition

INDIGENCE, noun. A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope