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soreness

noun

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”).

  1. inherited from *sairanassī✻
  2. inherited from sārnes — “bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”
  3. inherited from sornes

Definitions

  1. The property, state, or condition of being sore

    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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No curated loop yet for soreness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA