The definition of indigency is the state of being poor or needy. An example of indigency is when you are homeless and have no money.

Is Indigency a word?

Indigence a noun, and indigent, an adjective, are related words that have to do with need. If you are indigent — suffering from extreme poverty — you are living in indigence, the state of extreme poverty.

What does it mean Indigency?

1 : suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished. 2a archaic : deficient. b archaic : totally lacking in something specified.