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The state of feeling everything at once and despising every part of it.

means Feeling deeply unhappy, wretched, or distressed — or describing conditions so bad they cause such feelings.

from From Latin miserabilis, "pitiable, deserving of pity," built on miser, "wretched, unfortunate" — the same miser that gives us misery and commiserate. It reached English through French in the late Middle Ages. Curiously, the modern stingy "miser" comes from the same root: Latin miser meant simply "wretched," and a hoarder of money was seen as a person made wretched by their own greed.

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From miser, meaning wretched and pitiable
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Les Miserables means the wretched ones
misery loves
Company actually reduces stress hormones in shared suffering
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Low pressure days measurably worsen reported moods
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the miserable mile — nickname for the final stretch of the iditarod sled race into nome, alaska

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