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Pennilessness

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being penniless. uncountable
  2. 2
    a state of lacking money wordnet
  3. 3
    The state or quality of being penniless.; Synonym of destitution (“extreme poverty”). uncountable

    "I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot."

Etymology

From penniless + -ness.

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