different between soreness vs discomfort

English

Etymology

From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English s?rnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), equivalent to sore +? -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian s?rnisse, s?rnesse (“injury, lesion”), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (“wounding, injury, distress, need”).

Noun

soreness (usually uncountable, plural sorenesses)

1. 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• roseness

English

Etymology

From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?mf?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d?s?k?mf?t/

Noun

discomfort (countable and uncountable, plural discomforts)

1. Mental or bodily distress.
2. Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.

Translations

Verb

discomfort (third-person singular simple present discomforts, present participle discomforting, simple past and past participle discomforted)

1. To cause annoyance or distress to.
2. (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.

Usage notes

As a verb, the unrelated term discomfit is often used instead, largely interchangeably, though this is proscribed by some as an error, discomfit originally meaning “destroy”, not “distress”.

Derived terms

• discomforter

See also

• discomfit