We found 1 definitions of impoverishments from 1 different sources.
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impoverishment - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions | ||
poverty, poorness | ||
wealthiness, wealth the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent" | ||
financial condition the condition of (corporate or personal) finances | ||
neediness, privation, deprivation, want the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree; "he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it" | ||
destitution a state without friends or money or prospects | ||
indigence, pauperism, penury, pauperization, need a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" | ||
impoverishment - the act of making someone poor | ||
pauperization, pauperisation | ||
privation, deprivation act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights" |