As nouns the difference between penury and indigence
is thatpenury is extreme want; poverty; destitution while indigence is extreme poverty or destitution.
Penury is described as "a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him";
"a general state of need exists among the homeless" indigence, pauperism, pauperization, need impoverishment, poorness,
poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material
possessions mendicancy, mendicity, beggary - the state of being a beggar
or mendicant; "they were reduced mendicancy"http://www.thefreedictionary.com/penury
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