noun (n)

• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions(noun.state)

  Synonym:
  impoverishment, poorness
  Antonym:
  wealth, wealthiness
  

  source: wordnet30
• The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.(noun)

  source: webster1913