Synonyms for destituteness
- default
- disaster
- failure
- insolvency
- liquidation
- loss
- defalcation
- destitution
- exhaustion
- indebtedness
- indigence
- lack
- nonpayment
- overdraft
- pauperism
- privation
- repudiation
- ruin
- ruination
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WORD ORIGIN
late 14c., "abandoned, forsaken," from Latin destitutus "abandoned," past participle of destituere "forsake," from de- "away" + statuere "put, place," causative of stare "to stand," from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Originally literal; sense of "lacking resources, impoverished" is 1530s.
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