nouns
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
"the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
"the wretchedness for which these prisons became known"; "the grey wretchedness of the rain"
is a type of (narrower)
the state of being tense and feeling pain
the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
"he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness"
is a type of (narrower)
an inferior quality