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wretchedness

noun
  1. the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
    “They have compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness.”
  2. the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
    “the wretchedness for which these prisons became known”
  3. a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
    “the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable”
    miserymiserableness