poverties
- 1Plural of poverty.
The essay contrasts the material and spiritual poverties of modern urban life.
Economists distinguish among several poverties, each measured by a different standard.
Note
A plural that appears only when poverty is counted by kind. Both meanings of poverty, a lack of money and a deficiency of something needed, are usually uncountable, so the plural signals that distinct sorts of want are being set side by side: material against spiritual, or one measure against another. For ordinary statements about being poor, keep the singular. Reach for the plural only when contrasting types.
poverties is a form of poverty
poverty, noun: The condition of being poor; a lack of money and the material resources needed to live. Full entry
- Forms
- povertypoverties plural
- Spelling
- poverty → poverties: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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