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Squalor vs Wretchedness - What's the difference?

squalor | wretchedness |

As nouns the difference between squalor and wretchedness

is that squalor is squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity while wretchedness is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.

squalor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.
  • * The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor . -- Taylor
  • * To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens
  • ** Dickens also used the term to refer to those living in Squalor, such as those in the slums.

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    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.