Pauperism \Pau"per*ism\, n. [Cf. F. paup['e]risme.]
The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons
requiring support from the community. --Whatly.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Poverty; indigence; penury; want; need; destitution. See
Poverty.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pauperism
n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, beggary,
pauperization]
WordNet (r) 2.0
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "pauperism":
bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary,
deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe,
hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness,
impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness,
necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperization, penury,
pinch, privation, want
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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