Definition of poorness Poorness

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We found 8 definitions of poorness from 4 different sources.

What does poorness mean?

Noun Plural: poornesses
poorness - the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
		low quality, inferiority an inferior quality
poorness - less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
		aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall)
poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
		meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
		deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
		wateriness the property of resembling the viscosity of water
		abstemiousness moderation in eating and drinking
poorness - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
		poverty, impoverishment
		wealthiness, wealth the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent"
		financial condition the condition of (corporate or personal) finances
		neediness, privation, deprivation, want the quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree; "he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it"
		destitution a state without friends or money or prospects
		indigence, pauperism, penury, pauperization, need a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"