An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
POORNESS
poorness
(noun) the quality of being poorly made or maintained; “she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography”
meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
(noun) the quality of being meager; “an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes”-George Eliot
poorness
(noun) less than adequate; “the relative poorness of New England farmland”
poverty, poorness, impoverishment
(noun) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
poorness (countable and uncountable, plural poornesses)
The quality of being poor
poverty
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Source: Wiktionary
Poor"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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STRAFE
(verb) attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane; “civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country’s surrender”
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