abjectness
State of misery
Abjectness is the quality or state of being abject—utterly wretched, degraded, or hopeless.
It describes the lowest depths of misery or self-abasement: the abjectness of their poverty, He couldn't hide the abjectness in his voice.
The word often implies a loss of dignity or spirit that goes beyond mere hardship.
Loss of dignity
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- disgraceLoss of honor
- dishonorLoss of respect
- debasementDiminishing worth or purity
indignity · mortification · subjugation · servility · lowliness · wretchedness · baseness · contemptibility
State without hope
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- wretchednessExtreme unhappiness or distress
- desolationState of complete emptiness
anguish · suffering · sorrow · gloom · desperation · forlornness · bleakness · melancholy
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- privationLack of necessities
want · neediness · impoverishment · pauperism · hardship · deprivation · beggary · pennilessness
humiliation
Loss of dignity
debasement · indignity · mortification · subjugation · servility · lowliness · wretchedness · baseness · contemptibility · groveling
hopelessness
State without hope
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- wretchednessExtreme unhappiness or distress
desolation · anguish · suffering · sorrow · gloom · desperation · forlornness · bleakness · melancholy · woe
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- squalorDirty, degraded living conditions
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
privation · want · neediness · impoverishment · pauperism · hardship · deprivation · beggary · pennilessness · slum
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
abjectnessdignity
Innate personal worth
pride · self-respect · nobility · honor · self-worth
abjectnesscheerfulness
State of bright spirits
hopefulness · joy · happiness · elation · contentment
abjectnessprosperity
Good fortune, success
eminence · exaltation · glory · triumph · success
reject, subject, rejected, eject, rejection, ejection, dejected, abject, dejection