poverties
States of indigence
Poverties is the plural of poverty, used when distinguishing types or instances of deprivation.
Poverty usually appears as an uncountable noun—the state of being poor—but the plural allows for specification: the poverties of spirit and imagination, material and emotional poverties.
The form is uncommon but grammatically standard.
States of lacking necessities
- scarcitiesStates of insufficient supply
- hardshipsSevere difficulties or suffering
- inequalitiesUnequal conditions or distributions
- wantTo desire something
penury · indigence · neediness · privations · shortages · insufficiencies · breadlines · slums
States of insufficient supply
- shortagesInsufficient quantities available
- depletionsActs of using up
- deficitsAmounts lacking or owed
- dearthsExtreme insufficiencies of supply
insufficiencies · famines · droughts · water scarcity · food insecurity · environmental degradation · ecosystem collapse · biodiversity loss
Relegation to powerless periphery
- exclusionsThings deliberately left out
- isolationsStates of being apart
- disenfranchisementsRemovals of voting privileges
- inequitiesUnfair distributions or treatments
discriminations · voicelessness · powerlessness · invisibility · stigmatization · caste · untouchability · segregation
Absence of substance
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- voidsEmptinesses or nullifies
- vacuumsSpaces without matter
meaninglessness · soullessness · desolations · aridity · sterility · disconnection · alienation · despair
Lacks of knowledge
- illiteraciesLacks of reading ability
- deficienciesInsufficient amounts of something
- limitationsImposed or inherent bounds
- narrownessConfined width quality
shallowness · unenlightenment · benightedness · learning barriers
deprivations
States of lacking necessities
- scarcitiesStates of insufficient supply
- hardshipsSevere difficulties or suffering
- inequalitiesUnequal conditions or distributions
want · penury · indigence · neediness · privations · shortages · insufficiencies · breadlines · slums · shantytowns
scarcities
States of insufficient supply
- shortagesInsufficient quantities available
- depletionsActs of using up
- deficitsAmounts lacking or owed
dearths · insufficiencies · famines · droughts · water scarcity · food insecurity · environmental degradation · ecosystem collapse · biodiversity loss · resource depletion
marginalization
Relegation to powerless periphery
- exclusionsThings deliberately left out
- isolationsStates of being apart
- disenfranchisementsRemovals of voting privileges
inequities · discriminations · voicelessness · powerlessness · invisibility · stigmatization · caste · untouchability · segregation · ghettoization
emptiness
Absence of substance
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- voidsEmptinesses or nullifies
vacuums · meaninglessness · soullessness · desolations · aridity · sterility · disconnection · alienation · despair · hopelessness
ignorances
Lacks of knowledge
- illiteraciesLacks of reading ability
- deficienciesInsufficient amounts of something
- limitationsImposed or inherent bounds
narrowness · shallowness · unenlightenment · benightedness · learning barriers
povertiesriches
Abundant valuable possessions
wealth · affluence · prosperity · opulence · fortune
povertiesabundances
States of plentifulness
plenties · richnesses · profusions · bounties · amplitudes
povertieswealths
Plural of riches
riches · prosperities · fortunes · abundances · opulences
poverty, impoverished, impoverish, impoverishment, impoverishing