nouns
the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
less than adequate
"the relative poorness of New England farmland"
is a type of (narrower)
the quality of yielding nothing of value
the quality of being meager
"an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
the quality of being poorly made or maintained
"she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
is a type of (narrower)
an inferior quality