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Synonyms for pauperism

  • noun

Most common

poverty destitution penury indigence

All synonyms

Noun

indigence, penury, poverty, destitution, need, want, beggary, pauperization, pauperisation UK, mendicancy, moneylessness, privation

Antonyms

divitism

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Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The state of being a pauper; poverty.

Forms

Plural
pauperisms → indigences, penuries, poverties, destitutions…

Example sentences

  • poverty The issue of Third World poverty is very pressing.
  • destitution We fight to pull ourselves out of destitution.
  • penury Can Tebboune lead Algeria from penury to prosperity?

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pauperismfalling
povertyrising
destitutionsteady
penurysteady
indigencesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
need1, want1
6 letters
penury3
7 letters
poverty3, beggary
9 letters
privation3, indigence
10 letters
mendicancy
11 letters
destitution4
13 letters
pauperization, pauperisation, moneylessness

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (penury3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
paupérisme
Español
pauperismo