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Terribleness vs Wretchedness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terribleness and wretchedness

is that terribleness is the characteristic of being terrible while wretchedness is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.

terribleness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The characteristic of being terrible.

    • 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.