wretchedness

Noun

• the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
  • he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness
    

• the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
  • the wretchedness for which these prisons became known
    
  • the grey wretchedness of the rain
    

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
  • the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  misery , miserableness