SORENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soreness mean? 

• SORENESS (noun)
  The noun SORENESS has 2 senses:

1. a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

2. an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

  Familiarity information: SORENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

rawness; soreness; tenderness

Context example:

after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on

Hypernyms ("soreness" is a kind of...):

hurting; pain (a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "soreness"):

chafing (soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction)

rebound tenderness (pain felt when a hand pressing on the abdomen is suddenly released; a symptom of peritoneal inflammation)

chafe (soreness and warmth caused by friction)

Derivation:

sore (hurting)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

discomfort; irritation; soreness

Hypernyms ("soreness" is a kind of...):

hurt; suffering (feelings of mental or physical pain)

Derivation:

sore (roused to anger)

sore (causing misery or pain or distress)

 Context examples 

There may also be swelling and soreness around the area that the surgeon cut.

(After Surgery, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research)

From that moment my state of mind changed; the fetters dissolved and dropped from every faculty, leaving nothing of bondage but its galling soreness—which time only can heal.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author's best education, and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)