impoverishment

Noun impoverishment has 2 senses

• impoverishment(n = noun.state) poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions;
is a kind of financial condition
has particulars: deprivation, neediness, privation, want, destitution, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, penury, impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness

• impoverishment(n = noun.act) pauperisation, pauperization - the act of making someone poor;
is a kind of deprivation, privation
Derived forms verb impoverish₂, verb impoverish₁