(n.) The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

absence bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness begging bumming cadging defectiveness deficiency deficit deprivation destitution drought empty purse famine grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impecuniousness imperfection impoverishment incompleteness indigence lack mendicancy mendicity moneylessness mooching necessitousness necessity need neediness omission panhandling pauperism pauperization penury pinch privation scrounging shortage shortcoming shortfall starvation want wantage