Category:Indigence

In"di*gence, n. Etym: [L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence. See Indigent.]

Defn: The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.

Syn. -- Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.