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Poverty vs Insufficiency - What's the difference?

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Poverty is a synonym of insufficiency.


As nouns the difference between poverty and insufficiency

is that poverty is the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need while insufficiency is the lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.

poverty

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
  • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty' line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the '''poverty''' barrier. But '''poverty'''’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own ' poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
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    insufficiency

    English

    Noun

    (insufficiencies)
  • The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
  • The troops went hungry because of the insufficiency of their supplies.

    Synonyms

    * unsufficiency (obsolete)