soreness
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Etymology
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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Noun
soreness (usually uncountable, plural sorenesses)
- 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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