INSOLVENCY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insolvency mean? 

• INSOLVENCY (noun)
  The noun INSOLVENCY has 1 sense:

1. the lack of financial resources

  Familiarity information: INSOLVENCY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSOLVENCY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lack of financial resources

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("insolvency" is a kind of...):

financial condition (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insolvency"):

bankruptcy; failure (inability to discharge all your debts as they come due)

Antonym:

solvency (the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due)

Derivation:

insolvent (unable to meet or discharge financial obligations)

 Context examples 

Impossible!—when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)