soreness

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soreness

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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”).

noun sorenesses

uncountable, usually 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.
uncountable, usually A lingering emotional pain resulting in bitterness or resentment.

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Closest in meaning: discomfort, irritation, tenderness, pain, ache, agony, grief, sorrow, sting, susceptibility, sensitivity, aches, painfulness, saddlesoreness, hurtfulness, suffering

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noun being sore

中文	疼痛 téngtòng, 酸痛 suāntòng
Deutsch	Schmerz, Wundsein

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@misc{soreness_2026,
  title = {soreness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/soreness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}