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n. The quality of being poor

n. poverty

n. The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

n. The state, condition, or quality of being poor, in any of the senses of the word; poverty; meanness.

n. the quality of being poorly made or maintained

n. the quality of being meager

n. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

n. less than adequate

"I am always amazed by some of the word uneducated people understand in this country as well as amazed by the poorness of their vocabulary."

low quality    inferiority    fruitlessness    barrenness    aridity   

flagrancy    shunyata    turbidity    plentitude    messiness    rampancy    nett    angularity    dramatizations    pleonasm