callosity
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
callosity (countable and uncountable, plural callosities)
- (countable) A callus
- (uncountable) A callous demeanour; insensitivity or hardheartedness
- Synonyms: callousness, hardheartedness, insensitivity
- 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 291:
- The repetition of religious duties, without the feeling or spirit of religion, produces an incurable callosity of heart.
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Translations[edit]
callus — see callus