noun (n)

• a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune(noun.state)

  Example:
  The misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable.
  

  Synonym:
  miserableness, misery
  

  source: wordnet30
• the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant(noun.state)

  Example:
  The wretchedness for which these prisons became known.
  The grey wretchedness of the rain.
  

  source: wordnet30
• the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  He has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness.
  

  source: wordnet30
• The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.(noun)

  source: webster1913