Impoverishment vs Necessitousness - What's the difference?
impoverishment | necessitousness |
The action of impoverishing someone.
The state of being impoverished.
The state or condition of impoverishment; material need, especially of an urgent nature.
*1973 , Jacob Ziegel, "Recent Developments in Canadian Consumer Credit Law," The Modern Law Review , vol. 36, no. 5, pp. 495-6:
*:If necessitousness implies a pressing need for the money and a lack of ability to bargain over rates, then it would seem the modern consumer is not in a very different position from his pre-war cousin.
(rare) The state or condition of being necessary or essential; necessity.
*1946 , Walter Firey, "Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes," American Sociological Review , vol. 11, no. 4, p. 413:
*:Some of the forces incline the land toward agricultural use, others incline it toward residential use. . . . There is no economic necessitousness that would dictate one or the other use.