poorness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

poorness
    n 1: the state of having little or no money and few or no
         material possessions [syn: {poverty}, {poorness},
         {impoverishment}] [ant: {wealth}, {wealthiness}]
    2: less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England
       farmland"
    3: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would
       only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn:
       {meagerness}, {meagreness}, {leanness}, {poorness},
       {scantiness}, {scantness}, {exiguity}]
    4: the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was
       unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Poorness \Poor"ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of
   the adjective). --Bacon.
   [1913 Webster]