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Synonyms for pauperism
pau·perism
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
pauperism
Poverty denotes strictly lack of property or adequate means of support, but in common use is a relative term denoting any condition below that of easy, comfortable living; privation denotes a condition of painful lack of what is useful or desirable, tho not to the extent of absolute distress; indigence is lack of ordinary means of subsistence; destitution is lack of the comforts, and in part even of the necessaries of life; penury is especially cramping poverty, possibly not so sharp as destitution, but continuous, while that may be temporary; pauperism is such destitution as throws one upon organized public charity for support; beggary and mendicancy denote poverty that appeals for indiscriminate private charity.
Synonyms:
beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, mendicancy, need, penury, poverty, privation, want
Princeton's WordNet
indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperizationnoun
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
"their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"
Synonyms:
motive, need, demand, impoverishment, pauperization, indigence, motivation, pauperisation, want, penury
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
pauperismnoun
Synonyms:
mendicancy, indigence, destitution, beggary, penury, extreme poverty
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#183 | need | |
#254 | want | |
#1829 | demand | |
#3761 | poverty | |
#7769 | motivation | |
#12669 | distress | |
#16875 | motive | |
#84828 | impoverishment | |
#95248 | destitution | |
#112192 | privation | |
#168469 | penury | |
#210874 | indigence | |
#257159 | beggary | |
#316503 | pauperism |
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