- poverty, poorness, impoverishment - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
--1 is a kind of financial condition, economic condition
--1 has particulars:privation, want, deprivation; destitution; indigence, need, penury, beggary, pauperism, pauperization; impecuniousness, pennilessness, penuriousness - poorness - less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
--2 is a kind of fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
- meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
--3 is a kind of insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
--3 has particulars: abstemiousness; sparseness, spareness, sparsity- poorness - the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
--4 is a kind of inferiority, low quality
- meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot