Penury vs. Poverty — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Penury and Poverty
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Penury
Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
Poverty
Poverty is the state of not having enough material possessions or income for a person's basic needs. Poverty may include social, economic, and political elements.
Penury
Extreme want; poverty; destitution.
Poverty
The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts.
Penury
A lack of something; a dearth.
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Poverty
Deficiency in amount; scantiness
"the poverty of feeling that reduced her soul" (Scott Turow).
Penury
Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
They were exposed to hardship and penury.
It arises in neither from penury of thought.
Poverty
Unproductiveness; infertility
The poverty of the soil.
Penury
Penuriousness; miserliness.
Poverty
Renunciation made by a member of a religious order of the right to own property.
Penury
A state of extreme poverty or destitution;
Their indigence appalled him
A general state of need exists among the homeless
Poverty
The quality or state of being poor; lack of money
Poverty
A deficiency of something needed or desired
Poverty of soil
Poverty of the blood
Poverty of spirit
Poverty
The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.
Poverty
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.
Poverty
The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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