What does "squalor" mean?

Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty

Squalor

Common synonyms include: abjectness, abominableness, atrociousness, awfulness, baseness, beastliness.

/ˈskwɑlɚ/ noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Noun

1
Filthiness and degradation, as from neglect or poverty uncountable, usually
"The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor."
2
sordid dirtiness wordnet

"The squalor of the slums is not for the faint hearted."

From the Latin squālor.