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poorness
 
Noun poorness has 4 senses
  1. poverty, poorness, impoverishment - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
    --1 is a kind of financial condition, economic condition
    --1 has particulars:
     privation, want, deprivation; destitution; indigence, need, penury, beggary, pauperism, pauperization; impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness
  2. poorness - less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
    --2 is a kind of     fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
  3. meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
    --3 is a kind of insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
    --3 has particulars: abstemiousness; sparseness, spareness, sparsity
  4. poorness - the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
    --4 is a kind of     inferiority, low quality
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