Definitions for: Poorness

[n] the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
[n] the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
[n] less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
[n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Webster (1913) Definition: Poor"ness, n.
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
the adjective). --Bacon.

Synonyms: exiguity, impoverishment, meagerness, meagreness, poverty, scantiness, scantness

Antonyms: wealth, wealthiness

See Also: aridity, barrenness, beggary, deficiency, deprivation, destitution, economic condition, financial condition, fruitlessness, impecuniousness, inadequacy, indigence, inferiority, insufficiency, low quality, need, pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, privation, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, want

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