wretchedness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
    miserableness; misery.
    • the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
  2. noun the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
    • the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
    • the grey wretchedness of the rain
  3. noun the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
    • he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness

WordNet

Wretch"ed*ness noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913