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Poorness Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Poorness has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
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"

5

The quality of being poor

Example Sentences
"the relative poorness of New England farmland" noun
"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes" noun
"she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography" noun
See Also
poverty poor
Related Terms
Antonyms
wealthiness
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
financial condition fruitlessness insufficiency inferiority
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
privation destitution indigence impecuniousness wateriness abstemiousness sparseness
Rhyming Words
ess 1ess ress ness tess hess kess wess jess fess yess sess less bess cess mess guess 1aess gless cress
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