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

1 sense of mendicity

Sense 1
beggary, mendicancy, mendicity -- (the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy")
       => indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization -- (a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless")