wretchedness

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.

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noun

1. A state of physical or mental suffering: affliction, agony, anguish, distress, hurt, misery, pain, torment, torture, woe, wound. See happy/unhappy.
2. A state of prolonged anguish and privation: misery, suffering, woe. See happy/unhappy.

IN BRIEF: n. - The quality of being poor and inferior and sorry; The character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant; A state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune.

The misery and wretchedness of those people is intolerable.

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