penury

Penury is a related term of sparingness.

As nouns the difference between penury and sparingness

is that penury is extreme want; poverty; destitution while sparingness is the property of being sparing.

As an adjective impecunious

is lacking money.

As a noun penury is

extreme want; poverty; destitution.

Penury is a related term of beggary.

As nouns the difference between penury and beggary

is that penury is extreme want; poverty; destitution while beggary is the state of a beggar; indigence, extreme poverty.

As an adjective beggary is

(obsolete) beggarly.

Penury is a related term of jejuneness.

As nouns the difference between penury and jejuneness

is that penury is extreme want; poverty; destitution while jejuneness is the state or condition of being jejune.

Deficiency is a related term of penury.

As nouns the difference between deficiency and penury

is that deficiency is (uncountable) inadequacy or incompleteness while penury is extreme want; poverty; destitution.

As nouns the difference between privation and penury

is that privation is the state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute while penury is extreme want; poverty; destitution.

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 penury is

extreme want; poverty; destitution.

As an adjective destitute

is lacking something; devoid; especially lacking money; poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken.

As a noun penury is

extreme want; poverty; destitution.