the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor; indigence.

deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.

poverty of the soil.

scantiness; insufficiency

Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies.

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abundance , affluence , luxury , richness , wealth

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abjection , aridity , bankruptcy , barrenness , beggary , dearth , debt , deficiency , deficit , depletion , destitution , difficulty , distress , emptiness , exiguity , famine , hardship , impecuniousness , impoverishment , inadequacy , indigence , insolvency , insufficiency , lack , meagerness , necessitousness , necessity , pass , paucity , pauperism , pennilessness , penury , pinch , poorness , privation , reduction , scarcity , shortage , starvation , straits , underdevelopment , vacancy , impecuniosity , need , neediness , penuriousness , want , defect , scantiness , scantness , scarceness , shortcoming , shortfall , underage , dire straits , infecundity , mendicancy , rags , squalor , sterility , tenuity