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noun a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune
noun a feeling of intense unhappiness
originFrom Middle English miserie, from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser, equivalent to miser + -y. Doublet of misère and mizeria.
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