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Hideousness vs Wretchedness - What's the difference?

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Hideousness is a related term of wretchedness.


As nouns the difference between hideousness and wretchedness

is that hideousness is the state of being hideous; extreme ugliness while wretchedness is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.

hideousness

English

Noun

  • The state of being hideous; extreme ugliness

    • wretchedness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
  • * 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 3
    • She saw only that he was quiet and unobtrusive, and she liked him for it. He did not disturb the wretchedness of her mind by ill-timed conversation.
  • A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish.