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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.

Sir W. Raleigh.

A wretched object; anything despicably.

[Obs.]

Eat worms and such

wretchedness

Chaucer.

Noun.

Extreme misery or unhappiness, either from want or sorrow; as the wretchedness of poor mendicants.

We have, with the feeling, most the very memory of such wretchedness as our forefathers endured--

The prodigal brought nothing to his father but his rags and wretchedness.

Meanness; despicableness; as the wretchedness of a performance.

wretchedness ‎(usually uncountable, plural wretchednesses)

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.