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How to pronounce poorness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms impoverishment, poverty
Type of financial condition
Has types pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, deprivation, privation, want, impecuniousness, destitution, indigence, penury, need, neediness
Derivation poor
Type Words
Synonyms exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness
Type of deficiency, insufficiency, inadequacy
Has types abstemiousness, spareness, sparseness, sparsity, thinness, wateriness
Derivation poor
Type Words
Type of fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
Derivation poor


the relative poorness of New England farmland.
Type Words
Type of low quality, inferiority


she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography.

Examples of poorness

poorness
That may actually be a measure of our poorness.
From the washingtontimes.com
I have seen this mom and the baby many times, so I believe that the poorness is really close to the richness.
From the imo.thejakartapost.com
Economical motivations according to Peters also existed since the poorness of the Meccan migrants was a source of concern for Muhammad.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I thought their management skill was better than in China before, but from some things occurred these time I realize of their poorness of managemnet.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Poverty: the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
  • Less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
  • Meagerness: 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"
  • Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to as absolute poverty or destitution. ...