poorness

Noun (4)

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessionsSynonyms: povertyimpoverishmentType of financial conditionKinds privation, indigence, destitution, impecuniousness
2. less than adequate“the relative poorness of New England farmland”Type of fruitlessness, aridity
3. the quality of being meager“an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes — George Eliot”Synonyms: meagernessmeagrenessleannessscantinessscantnessexiguityType of insufficiency, inadequacyKinds wateriness, thinness, abstemiousness, sparseness
4. the quality of being poorly made or maintained“she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography”Type of inferiority, low quality