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English Dictionary: wretchedness	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wretchedness n a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable" Synonym(s): misery, wretchedness, miserableness the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; "the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain" the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; "he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wretchedness \Wretch"ed*ness\, n. 1. The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery. --Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A wretched object; anything despicably. [Obs.] Eat worms and such wretchedness. --Chaucer.