Meaning of wretchedness

(noun) 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"

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