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noun (n)

• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions(noun.state)

  Synonym:
  impoverishment, poverty
  Antonym:
  wealth, wealthiness
  

  source: wordnet30
• less than adequate(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  The relative poorness of New England farmland.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the quality of being meager(noun.attribute)

  Synonym:
  exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness
  

  source: wordnet30
• the quality of being poorly made or maintained(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  She was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography.
  

  source: wordnet30
• The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).(noun)

  source: webster1913