poorness

noun

Definition of poornessnext
as in poverty
the state of lacking sufficient money or material possessions each country has its own standard of poorness, and one nation's needy inhabitant can be another's fairly well-off citizen

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  1. poverty
  2. indigence
  3. penury
Noun
  • Pine Ridge has a long history of violence — a 1973 confrontation at Wounded Knee between activists and federal officials left several people dead — as well as high levels of poverty.
    Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Raised in poverty, Jones would often recall being forced to catch, cook and eat rodents, or go hungry.
    Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of poverty
Noun
  • The ceaseless movement of staff around the world compounds this nebulous sensation of perpetual indigence.
    Nick Foulkes, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
  • In its first three years, Bolsa Família cut extreme poverty by 15 percent, and by 2014, the percentage of Brazilians living in indigence had been slashed to less than three percent—a level the World Bank considers equivalent to eradication.
    Jonathan Tepperman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015
Definition of indigence
Noun
  • Anderson renders her character’s slow descent into virtual penury and laudanum addiction a genuinely heartrending experience, and her late-in-the-film breakdown about her uselessness stands as one of the decade’s great acting feats.
    IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a growing number of technocrats, business leaders and academics who see the current crisis in Gaza as the opportunity to confront the risk of Haredim pulling the country toward theocratic penury.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2024
Definition of penury
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