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”).

Pronunciation

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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
• Scots: sairness
• Swedish: ömhet (sv) c

Anagrams

• roseness