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soreness

soreness noun: the property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.

Noun

soreness (usually uncountable, plural sorenesses)

  1. (usually) 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.
    • Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States....2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD
  2. (usually) A lingering emotional pain resulting in bitterness or resentment.

soreness meaning in Urdu and Bengali

soreness in Urdu

soreness
خراش xarāś
soreness, ache, discomfort
پیڑا pīṛā

soreness in Bengali

ব্যথা, প্রদাহ

Forms of soreness

pluralsorenesses

Origin of soreness

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”).

Words formed from soreness

Phrases with soreness

Questions about soreness

What does soreness mean?
Soreness means the property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
What is soreness in Urdu?
Soreness in Urdu is خراش (xarāś), پیڑا (pīṛā). See Soreness meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is soreness?
Soreness is a noun.
What is the plural of soreness?
The plural of soreness is sorenesses.

Words near soreness in the dictionary

  1. Sorell
  2. Sorell Creek
  3. sorels
  4. sorely
  5. Soren
  6. soreness
  7. sorenesses
  8. Soreng
  9. Sorensen
  10. Sorensens
  11. Sorenson

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