Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being miserable; misery; wretchedness.
  • noun Miserliness; niggardliness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state or quality of being miserable.

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  • noun The property of being miserable.

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  • noun a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune

Etymologies

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miserable +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence.

    Chapter 36 2010

  • Now one, and now another, and sometimes several, either from being knocked down by seas or from general miserableness, take to the bunk for a day or so off.

    CHAPTER XXXV 2010

  • No one wanted to make note of the miserableness of it.

    Director Finds a Clear Voice in the Headlines Steve Dollar 2012

  • Now that our idealistic notions of independence have becoming increasing intertwined with both our understanding of the need for community and the miserableness of trying to provide every last thing for yourself, what to do with a sustainable home in a not-so-sustainable location?

    Rebekah and Stephen Hren: There's No Such Thing as a Sustainable Home in an Unsustainble Location 2010

  • Philosophical miserableness, stoicism, nihilism and spiritual (not pragmatic) scepticism all lead to the view that only the imposition of order will suffice No wonder this the life hating, paranoid Nixonite figure of Gordon Brown appeals to every cowardly pessimistic fibre of the nation.

    The Pontiff Is In... Newmania 2007

  • Am I facing a future of bad, cranky writing and fat miserableness?

    Gossip Girl And The Tummy Of Doom | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • This miserableness went on as much as six or seven minutes; but it seemed a sight longer than that.

    The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

  • Partway through that month I hurt a lot, having picked up a cold, a few stiff joints and general miserableness!

    acupuncture update 2009

  • The director himself said, You, The Living is about the human being, about her greatness and her miserableness, her joy and sorrow, her self-confidence and anxiety.

    YOU, THE LIVING | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • My blood pressure was sky high and I had a raging headache and thus began 5 months of miserableness.

    I'm Boycotting the Monday After Thanksgiving jodifur 2008

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