Associations to the word «Poorness»

Wiktionary

POORNESS, noun. The quality of being poor
POORNESS, noun. Poverty

Dictionary definition

POORNESS, noun. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
POORNESS, noun. Less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland".
POORNESS, noun. The quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot.
POORNESS, noun. The quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca