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Sickness vs Soreness - What's the difference?

sickness | soreness |

As nouns the difference between sickness and soreness

is that sickness is the quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady while soreness is the property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.

sickness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; disease or malady.
    • I do lament the sickness of the king. -
    Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -.
    Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -.
  • Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

    • Derived terms

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    Synonyms

    * nausea * disease * illness * infirmity * malady

    Hyponyms

    * car sickness * homesickness * motion sickness

    References

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    soreness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.