mendicancy

As nouns the difference between want and mendicancy

is that want is a desire, wish, longing while mendicancy is the act or state of being a mendicant.

As a verb want

is to wish for or to desire (something).

As a proper noun Want

is a personification of want.

As nouns the difference between mendicancy and beggary

is that mendicancy is the act or state of being a mendicant while beggary is the state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.

As an adjective beggary is

(obsolete) beggarly.

Penury is a related term of mendicancy.

As nouns the difference between penury and mendicancy

is that penury is extreme want; poverty; destitution while mendicancy is the act or state of being a mendicant.

As a noun mendicancy is

the act or state of being a mendicant.