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callousness

noun

Etymology

From callous + -ness.

Definitions

  1. The quality of being callous

    The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.

    • Fred was known for his callousness; local panhandlers had long since learned not to try their sob stories on him.
    • To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
    • "The image of workers who had embraced each other as concrete crushed them — that final act of human kindness in the face of death — shattered my callousness completely."

  2. The quality of having calluses.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA