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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
soreness is a noun meaning "a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
“the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness”
“after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on”
an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for soreness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.