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poorness
Found in thesaurus: economic condition, financial condition, fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness, deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy, low quality, inferiority
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poorness
n.
state of lacking money, indigence
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Poverty
Poverty is general scarcity, , or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. It is a multifaceted concept, which includes social, economic, and political elements. Poverty may be defined as either absolute or relative. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the lack of means necessary to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter. Relative poverty takes into consideration individual social and economic status compared to the rest of society.
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poorness
Noun
1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
(synonym) poverty, impoverishment
(hypernym) financial condition, economic condition
(hyponym) privation, want, deprivation
2. less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
(hypernym) fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
3. the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
(synonym) meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
(hypernym) insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
(hyponym) abstemiousness
4. the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
(hypernym) inferiority, low quality
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Poorness
(n.)
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
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