impecuniousness

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impecuniousness - a state of lacking money

pennilessness, penuriousness

impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

impecuniousness

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The condition of being extremely poor:

beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impoverishment, indigence, need, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want.

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