soreness

soreness
    n 1: 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" [syn:
         {tenderness}, {soreness}, {rawness}]
    2: an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
       [syn: {discomfort}, {soreness}, {irritation}]
    

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]
    

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