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poorness

Dictionary definition · poorness

noun

  1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
  2. less than adequate"the relative poorness of New England farmland"
  3. the quality of being meager"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"
  4. the quality of being poorly made or maintained"she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).