regret vs wretchedness

regret

noun
  • Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing. 

  • The amount of avoidable loss that results from choosing the wrong action. 

verb
  • To feel sorry about (a thing that has or has not happened), afterthink: to wish that a thing had not happened, that something else had happened instead. 

  • To feel sorry about (any thing). 

wretchedness

noun
  • An unhappy state of mental or physical suffering. 

  • A state of prolonged misfortune, privation, or anguish. 

How often have the words regret and wretchedness occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )