soreness
4 synonyms for soreness, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A feeling of pain or tenderness in a part of the body.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
Comes 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. It is cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse (“injury, lesion”), and Middle Low German sêrnis...
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