Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wretchedness \Wretch"ed*ness\, n.
   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.

Source : WordNet®

wretchedness
     n : a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the
         misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"
         [syn: {misery}]