soreness

English

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)

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.

Derived terms

• delayed-onset muscle soreness

Translations

being sore

Chinese: Mandarin: 疼痛 (zh) (téngtòng), 酸痛 (zh) (suāntòng) Finnish: arkuus (fi) German: Schmerz (de) m, Wundsein n Irish: tinneas (ga) m, nimhneachas Middle English: sornesse Norwegian: sårhet Scots: sairness Swedish: ömhet (sv) c

Anagrams

• roseness