PAUPERISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pauperism mean? 

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

1. a state of extreme poverty or destitution

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAUPERISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of extreme poverty or destitution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury

Context example:

a general state of need exists among the homeless

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

impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)

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

beggary; mendicancy; mendicity (the state of being a beggar or mendicant)