What are the subtle differences in meaning and usage between poverty and poorness?
Learn English – the difference between “poverty” and “poorness”
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derivational-morphologydifferencesmeaningnounssuffixes
What are the subtle differences in meaning and usage between poverty and poorness?
Best Answer
I'll tell you one big difference: the frequency :-)
At Google Books:
"poverty is"
About 938,000 results
"poorness is"
About 815 results
"Poorness" is quite rare, by comparison.
Also, that "poverty" is used only in financial contexts is not true. Better dictionaries show: