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indigency

indigency is the alternative form of indigence.

Meaning of indigence

Noun

indigence (countable and uncountable, plural indigences)

  1. 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.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 4
    Synonyms:
    indigency
    Antonyms:
    affluence

Forms of indigency

pluralindigencies

Questions about indigency

What is indigency the alternative form of?
Indigency is the alternative form of indigence.

Words near indigency in the dictionary

  1. indigenae
  2. indigenal
  3. indigence
  4. indigences
  5. indigencies
  6. indigency
  7. indigene
  8. indigeneities
  9. indigeneity
  10. indigenes
  11. indigeneship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: indigency (page history and authors); indigence (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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