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noun
The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A lingering emotional pain resulting in bitterness or resentment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: discomfort, irritation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: suffering, hurt
noun
a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: tenderness, rawness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pain, hurting
Narrower terms: chafing, rebound tenderness, chafe
History
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”).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
