Pauperism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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