poorness
(noun)
noun
1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Similar word(s): impoverishment, poverty
Definition categories: state
2. less than adequate
- the relative poorness of New England farmland
Definition categories: attribute, aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness
3. the quality of being meager
Similar word(s): exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness
Definition categories: attribute, deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency
4. the quality of being poorly made or maintained
- she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography
Definition categories: attribute, inferiority