noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being poor
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
poorness
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noun
Meaning 2
poverty
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
the quality of being poorly made or maintained
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography
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Broader terms: inferiority, low quality
noun
Meaning 4
the quality of being meager-George Eliot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
Narrower terms: wateriness, abstemiousness, sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness
noun
Meaning 5
less than adequate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the relative poorness of New England farmland
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Broader terms: fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
noun
Meaning 6
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: poverty, impoverishment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: financial condition
Narrower terms: privation, want, deprivation, neediness, destitution, indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization, impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness
History
Etymology
From Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor + -ness.