Soreness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soreness \Sore"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as,
     the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  soreness
       n 1: a pain that is felt when the area is touched [syn: {tenderness}]
       2: an uncomfortable feeling in some part of the body [syn: {discomfort},
           {irritation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "soreness":
     a transient madness, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness,
     acrimony, algesia, allergy, anaphylaxis, anger, angriness,
     animosity, animus, asperity, bad blood, bile, bitter feeling,
     bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, causticity,
     choler, considerateness, delicacy, empathy, enragement,
     exquisiteness, festering, feud, fineness, gall, gnashing of teeth,
     grapes of wrath, hard feelings, heartburning, heat, hyperesthesia,
     hyperpathia, hypersensitivity, identification, ill blood,
     ill feeling, ill will, inflammation, infuriation, irateness, ire,
     irritability, irritation, mad, nervousness, oversensibility,
     oversensitiveness, overtenderness, passibility, perceptiveness,
     perceptivity, photophobia, prickliness, rancor, rankling,
     responsiveness, saeva indignatio, sensitiveness, sensitivity,
     sensitization, slow burn, sore, sore spot, sourness, spleen,
     supersensitivity, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tenderness,
     tetchiness, thin skin, ticklishness, touchiness, vendetta, venom,
     vials of wrath, virulence, vitriol, wrath, wrathfulness