Wretchedness vs Catastrophe - What's the difference?
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An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering.
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 3
A state of prolonged misfortune, privation or anguish.
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.
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
.wretchedness
English
Noun
(en-noun)- 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.