Abjectnesses

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The state of being extremely miserable or degraded in one's condition or situation
2. a condition marked by hopelessness and despair accompanied by a profound sense of humiliation
3. a manifestation of utter helplessness or subjugation often evoking pity or contempt

Etymology: The plural of "abjectness", a noun meaning the state of being abject. "Abject" comes from Latin "abiectus", the past participle of "abicere", "to throw away" (from "ab-", "away", plus "iacere", "to throw"), and its earliest English sense was literal: something cast off or thrown down. The moral and emotional sense of being wretched, degraded, or servile developed later. "-ness" is the English suffix that turns an adjective into a noun for a quality or state, ultimately from Old English "-nes". Attaching it to "abject" produces "abjectness", and the plural "abjectnesses" is simply the word counted as separate instances of that state.