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Callousness definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CALLOUSNESS, n. Hardness, induration, applied to the body; insensibility, applied to the mind or heart.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility]

Merriam Webster's

noun see callous I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Callous Cal"lous, a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum, callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.] 1. Hardened; indurated. ``A callous hand.'' --Goldsmith. ``A callous ulcer.'' --Dunglison. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. ``The callous diplomatist.'' --Macaulay. It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule. --T. Arnold. Syn: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See Obdurate. -- Cal"lous*ly, adv. -- Cal"lous*ness, n. A callousness and numbness of soul. --Bentley.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Moby Thesaurus

Philistinism, analgesia, anesthesia, armor, callosity, callus, coldbloodedness, coldheartedness, coldness, deadness, density, dullness, durity, electronarcosis, flintiness, formidable defenses, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness, hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, heartlessness, impassibility, impenetrability, impenitence, impenitentness, imperception, imperceptiveness, imperceptivity, impercipience, imperviousness, inconsiderateness, induration, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, insentience, insolence, inuredness, irrepentance, narcosis, narcotization, nonrepentance, numbness, obduracy, obdurateness, obtuseness, pins and needles, pitilessness, resistance, restiveness, rhinoceros hide, seared conscience, solidity, steeliness, stoniness, thick skin, toughness, unabjectness, uncontriteness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unmercifulness, unnaturalness, unperceptiveness, unresponsiveness