Poverty vs Meagerness - What's the difference?
poverty | meagerness | Synonyms |
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)
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.
(US) The state of being meager.
Poverty is a synonym of meagerness.
As nouns the difference between poverty and meagerness
is that poverty is the quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need while meagerness is (us) the state of being meager.poverty
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(en-noun)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.}}