Hypertext Webster Gateway: "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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
wretchedness
n : a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the
misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
[syn: {misery}]
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