Usually means: Intense misery or distress experienced.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. wretchedness: Merriam-Webster
  2. wretchedness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wretchedness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. wretchedness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Wretchedness, wretchedness: Wordnik
  6. wretchedness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. wretchedness: Wiktionary
  8. wretchedness: Dictionary.com
  9. Wretchedness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. wretchedness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. wretchedness: Rhymezone
  12. Wretchedness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. wretchedness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. wretchedness: FreeDictionary.org
  15. wretchedness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. wretchedness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wretchedness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wretchedness)

▸ noun:  An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
▸ noun:  A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish.

Similar:
misery, sufferableness, woefulness, ill-being, sorriness, miserableness, pitifulness, miserability, pain, tortness, more...

Opposite:
bliss, happiness, joy, delight, pleasure

Types:
misery, unhappiness, despair, gloom, dejection, woe, more...

Phrases:
wretchedness and woe, more...

Adjectives:
human, own, such, utter, extreme, much, great, general, present, physical, squalid



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Similar:
misery, sufferableness, woefulness, ill-being, sorriness, miserableness, pitifulness, miserability, pain, tortness, more...

Opposite:
bliss, happiness, joy, delight, pleasure

Types:
misery, unhappiness, despair, gloom, dejection, woe, more...

Phrases:
wretchedness and woe, more...

Adjectives:
human, own, such, utter, extreme, much, great, general, present, physical, squalid



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