different between tortured vs torturedness

English

tortured

tortured (comparative more tortured, superlative most tortured)

Having been subjected to torture, mental or physical.
Involving suffering and difficulty.
Of literature, burdened by unnecessary complexity, obfuscation, abstruseness, etc.

tortured +? -ness

torturedness (uncountable)

The quality of being tortured.
- 1973, D. G. Dufty, Grant Stewart Harman, Keith John Swan, Historians at work: investigating and recreating the past (page 59)
  The noble man must be praised (and perhaps also debunked) and the rogue condemned (with appreciation, where relevant, of his charm or torturedness).

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