noun
: life emptied of joys and satisfactions : extreme wretchedness
what happened … at the Nazi camp adds little to the all too familiar living-death literature — Time
noun
: life emptied of joys and satisfactions : extreme wretchedness
what happened … at the Nazi camp adds little to the all too familiar living-death literature — Time
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012