mendicancy vs penury

mendicancy and penury both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mendicancy	Yes	No	No	No
penury	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, penury is a hypernym of mendicancy; that is, penury is a word with a broader meaning than mendicancy:

Other hypernyms of mendicancy include indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization.

mendicancy (noun)	penury (noun)
a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person)	a state of extreme poverty or destitution
the state of being a beggar or mendicant