"poorness" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions (synset 114516729)
is a type of: financial condition - the condition of (corporate or personal) finances
subtypes:
- 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
same as: impoverishment, poverty
Less than adequate (synset 105155646)
"the relative poorness of New England farmland"

is a type of: aridity, barrenness, fruitlessness - the quality of yielding nothing of value
The quality of being meager (synset 105120762)
"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"

is a type of: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency - lack of an adequate quantity or number
subtypes:
- 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
same as: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness
The quality of being poorly made or maintained (synset 104738055)
"she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"

is a type of: inferiority, low quality - an inferior quality