Meaning and example
a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Their indigence appalled him
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.367 places pauperization in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 64.5% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 64.7%
marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
- Known by
- 64.1%
a medicine used to relieve pain
- Known by
- 64.1%
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- Known by
- 64%
a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen
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- 65.1%
habitual
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.