poverty Definition

poverty
noun

1. The condition of being poor; want.

Thesaurus: poorness, destitution, insolvency, indigence, impoverishment, pennilessness, paucity, penury, hardship, beggary, want, need, privation, necessity; Antonym: affluence, riches, richness.
2. Poor quality.
3. Inadequacy; deficiency.

Example: poverty of imagination
Thesaurus: want, need, lack, deficiency, insufficiency, shortage, scarcity, dearth, depletion, inadequacy, barrenness, bareness; Antonym: abundance.

Etymology: 12c: from French poverte, from Latin paupertas, from pauper poor.