soreness

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sore/sɔː(r)/

▶adjective

• 1 painful or aching.

  ■ suffering pain.

• 2 informal, chiefly N. Amer. upset and angry.

• 3 severe; urgent.

▶noun

• 1 a raw or painful place on the body.

• 2 a source of distress or annoyance.

▶adverb archaic extremely; severely.

– phrases
sore point an issue about which someone feels distressed or annoyed.
stand (or stick) out like a sore thumb be quite obviously different.

– derivatives
soreness noun.

– origin OE sār (n. and adj.), sāre (adv.), of Gmc origin.