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Poorness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being poor countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the quality of being poorly made or maintained wordnet
  3. 3
    poverty countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the quality of being meager wordnet
  5. 5
    less than adequate wordnet
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  1. 6
    the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English poornes, porenes, porenesse, pornes, pornesse, povernesse, powrenesse; equivalent to poor + -ness.

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