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Wretchedness vs Catastrophe - What's the difference?

wretchedness | catastrophe | Related terms |

Wretchedness is a related term of catastrophe.


As a noun wretchedness

is an unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.

As a verb catastrophe is

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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.
  • catastrophe

    Alternative forms

    * (now rare) *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
  • (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations
  • (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
  • (mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
  • Synonyms

    *nakba

    Derived terms

    * catastrophe bond * catastrophe theory