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extreme poverty

indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization(noun)

a state of extreme poverty or destitution

"their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"

the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions

lived in a time when single women like herself faced a lifetime of genteel penury

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