indigence
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 9
Definition of indigence
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)Extreme poverty or destitution.
“On Professor Solanka’s street, well-heeled white youths lounged in baggy garments on roseate stoops, stylishly simulating indigence while they waited for the billionairedom that would surely be along sometime soon.”
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Etymology
From Middle English indigence, late 14th century, from Old French indigence (13th century), from Latin indigentia, from indigentem, form of indigēre (“to need”), from indu (“in, within”) + egēre (“be in need, want”). Only relation to antonym affluence is common Latinate suffix + -ence.
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