poverty

noun
/ˈpɒvəti/UK/ˈpɑːvɚti/US

Etymology

From Middle English poverte, from Old French poverté (Modern French pauvreté), from Latin paupertās, from pauper (“poor”) + -tas (“noun of state suffix”). Cognates include pauper, poor.

  1. derived from paupertās
  2. derived from poverté
  3. inherited from poverte

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being poor

    The quality or state of being poor; lack of money

    • get into poverty
    • get out of poverty
    • escape from poverty
  2. A deficiency of something needed or desired

    • poverty of soil
    • poverty of the blood
    • poverty of spirit

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at poverty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at poverty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at poverty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA