"impoverishment" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions (synset 114516729)
is a type of: financial condition - the condition of (corporate or personal) finances
subtypes:
- deprivation, neediness, privation, want - a state of extreme poverty
- destitution - a state without friends or money or prospects
- indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury - a state of extreme poverty or destitution
- impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness - a state of lacking money
same as: poorness, poverty
The act of making someone poor (synset 101152962)
is a type of: deprivation, privation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights

same as: pauperisation, pauperization