Hypertext Webster Gateway: "poorness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Poorness \Poor"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
the adjective). --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
poorness
n 1: the state of having little or no money and few or no
material possessions [syn: {poverty}, {impoverishment}]
[ant: {wealth}]
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}, {scantiness}, {scantness}, {exiguity}]
4: the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was
unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
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