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callousness
  1. The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
  2. The quality of having calluses.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of government officials at the ground level.”
      “It shows a complete poverty of imagination and a vast amount of callousness.”
      “We tend to view the impoverished with fear, discomfort, apathy, annoyance, callousness or resentment.”
callosity
  1. (countable) A callus
  2. (uncountable) A callous demeanour; insensitivity or hardheartedness
  3. Examples:
    1. “During these beatings, she would clench fists, which led to thick callosity on her fingers.”
      “Each whale has a very distinctive callosity pattern that enables scientists to recognize individual whales easily.”
      “He wonders why a bare patch, and not a callosity, should not result from this innate, apparently hereditary habit.”
callous
  1. Alternative form of callus
callousnesses
callosities
  1. plural of callosity
  2. Examples:
    1. “He had wagered that she would be a Teutonic heavyweight with callosities growing on her forehead.”
      “The patterns are made up of rough, raised patches of skin called callosities.”
      “These are called callosities, and their colouration varies with the reproductive season.”
callouses
  1. plural of callous
  2. Examples:
    1. “His hands were thin, with long fingers unmarked by callouses, and his skin was too white to have been too often outside.”
      “His hair was greasy and stringy, and his skin had developed brown callouses.”
      “They were large and shapely, but the only callouses they could show were accusingly recent.”
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