Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun impoverishment

2 senses of impoverishment

Sense 1
poverty, poorness, impoverishment -- (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)
       => financial condition -- (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)

Sense 2
pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment -- (the act of making someone poor)
       => privation, deprivation -- (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights")