destitution vs impoverishment

destitution and impoverishment both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
destitution	Yes	No	No	No
impoverishment	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, impoverishment is a hypernym of destitution; that is, impoverishment is a word with a broader meaning than destitution:

destitution: a state without friends or money or prospects
impoverishment: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Other hypernyms of destitution include poorness, poverty.

destitution (noun)	impoverishment (noun)
a state without friends or money or prospects	the act of making someone poor
	the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions