soreness

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Etymology[edit]

From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes (bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief), from Proto-West Germanic *sairanassī, equivalent to sore +‎ -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (soreness), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse (injury, lesion), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (wounding, injury, distress, need).

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soreness (usually uncountable, plural sorenesses)

  1. The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
    The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains.

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