Definition of Soreness

1. Noun. A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched). "After taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"

Exact synonyms: Rawness, Tenderness
Specialized synonyms: Chafing, Rebound Tenderness, Chafe
Generic synonyms: Hurting, Pain
Derivative terms: Raw, Raw, Sore, Tender, Tender

2. Noun. An uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress.
Exact synonyms: Discomfort, Irritation
Generic synonyms: Hurt, Suffering
Derivative terms: Irritate, Sore, Sore

Definition of Soreness

1. n. The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

Definition of Soreness

1. Noun. The property of being sore, painfulness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Soreness

1. the quality or state of being sore [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Soreness

sorees
sorehead
soreheaded
soreheads
sorehon
sorehons
sorel
sorell
sorells
sorels
sorely
sorema
soremouth
soremouth virus
soremuzzle
soreness (current term)
sorenesses
sorer
sores
sorest
sorex
sorexes
sorgho
sorghos
sorghum
sorghums
sorgne
sorgo
sorgolactone

Literary usage of Soreness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty-five Years in the East: Adventures, Discoveries, Experiements, and by John Martin Honigberger (1852)
"Burning in the throat. Hoarseness. soreness of the mouth, r. Melong. tern., soreness of the fauces. Inflammation of the throat, p. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"Sensation of great soreness, with much colicky pain in the abdomen, especially after eating ... Pulsation in the abdomen, with a feeling of great soreness; ..."

3. On the Organic Diseases and Functional Disorders of the Stomach by George Budd (1856)
"Sumptoms of stomach disorders — Pain and soreness at the epigastrium — Vomiting ... When the pain and soreness depend on the organic diseases I have ..."

4. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"Aching in vagina ; burning and soreness in genitals ; violent ¡tellina: and soreness ... Aversion to coitus ; soreness in vulva and between legs ; smarting, ..."

5. Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England: Being a Collection by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Sextus Placitus, Dioscorides Pedanius (1864)
"For soreness of body,a take this same wort nasturtium, and penny royal ; seethe them in water ... thou the soreness of the body, and the evil departs. 5. ..."

6. Medical diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine. A Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1895)
"Diseases of the Stomach in which Pain and soreness at the Epigastrium, and Vomiting, occur. After what has been premised, it is obvious that the structural ..."

7. Alveolodental Pyorrhea by Charles Cassedy Bass (1915)
"soreness OF THE GUMS AND OF THE TEETH ON PRESSURE There is often a slight, sometimes considerable, soreness or unnatural feeling of the diseased gum from ..."

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