(n.) The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.

absence adversity bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness beggary dearth defectiveness deficiency deficit deprivation drought empty purse famine grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impecuniousness imperfection impoverishment incompleteness indigence lack mendicancy misfortune moneylessness necessitousness necessity need neediness omission pauperism pauperization penury pinch privation shortage shortcoming shortfall starvation want wantage