The quality or state of being deeply sorrowful or emotionally wounded; profound grief or anguish.
From 'heartsore' + '-ness' suffix, creating an abstract noun that names the condition of emotional pain. The formation follows predictable English patterns for creating nouns from adjectives.
Medieval and Renaissance poets loved stacking these emotional words—'heartsore,' 'heartsoreness,' 'heartbroken'—to capture just how deeply they felt pain. They had a whole vocabulary of heart-based suffering that we've mostly replaced with 'sad'!
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