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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions;
[syn: poverty, poorness, impoverishment]

2. less than adequate;
- Example: "the relative poorness of New England farmland"

3. the quality of being meager;
- Example: "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
[syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity]

4. the quality of being poorly made or maintained;
- Example: "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Poorness \Poor"ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
   the adjective). --Bacon.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

poorness
    n 1: the state of having little or no money and few or no
         material possessions [syn: poverty, poorness,
         impoverishment] [ant: wealth, wealthiness]
    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"-George Eliot [syn:
       meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness,
       scantiness, scantness, exiguity]
    4: the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was
       unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"