Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Indigence \In"di*gence\, n. [L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence.
   See {Indigent}.]
   The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of
   comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless,
   indigence. --Cowper.

   Syn: Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation;
        lack. See {Poverty}.

Source : WordNet®

indigence
     n : a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence
         appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the
         homeless" [syn: {need}, {penury}, {beggary}, {pauperism},
          {pauperization}]