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Noun poorness has 4 senses

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
poorness - less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
--₂ is a kind of fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
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
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