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Soreness

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness. uncountable, usually

    "The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains."

  2. 2
    an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress wordnet
  3. 3
    a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched) wordnet

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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