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wretchedness has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
“the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for wretchedness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant
“the wretchedness for which these prisons became known”
the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry
“he has compiled a record second to none in its wretchedness”