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POORNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being poorly made or maintained
Example:
she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("poorness" is a kind of...):
inferiority; low quality (an inferior quality)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being meager
Example:
an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes
Synonyms:
exiguity; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; poorness; scantiness; scantness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("poorness" is a kind of...):
deficiency; inadequacy; insufficiency (lack of an adequate quantity or number)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poorness"):
wateriness (meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food))
abstemiousness (restricted to bare necessities)
spareness; sparseness; sparsity; thinness (the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness)
Derivation:
poor (lacking in quality or substances)
poor (of insufficient quantity to meet a need)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Less than adequate
Example:
the relative poorness of New England farmland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("poorness" is a kind of...):
aridity; barrenness; fruitlessness (the quality of yielding nothing of value)
Derivation:
poor (lacking in quality or substances)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Synonyms:
impoverishment; poorness; poverty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("poorness" is a kind of...):
financial condition (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poorness"):
deprivation; neediness; privation; want (a state of extreme poverty)
destitution (a state without friends or money or prospects)
indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)
impecuniousness; pennilessness; penuriousness (a state of lacking money)
Derivation:
poor (having little money or few possessions)
poor (characterized by or indicating poverty)
