The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Destitution \Des`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. destitutio a forsaking.]
   The state of being deprived of anything; the state or
   condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources;
   deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the
   inundation caused general destitution. Destrer

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

destitution
    n 1: a state without friends or money or prospects

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "destitution":
   absence, adversity, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness,
   beggary, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation,
   drought, empty purse, famine, grinding poverty, gripe,
   hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness,
   imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, lack,
   mendicancy, misfortune, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity,
   need, neediness, omission, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch,
   privation, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, want,
   wantage