| Indigence (n.) Poverty; the condition of being needy; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury. Thesaurus Entries bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, want |