callousness
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- unfeelingness: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
- (callous) emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
- (callous) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
- (callous) calloused: having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear; "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands"
- (Callous) A callus (or callosity) is an especially toughened area of skin which has become relatively thick and hard in response to repeated friction, pressure, or other irritation. Rubbing that is too frequent or forceful will cause blisters rather than allow calluses to form. ...
- The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference
- (Callous) Hard thick skin on a pressure area.
- (Callous (Tom Swifty)) "Rowing so much hurts my hands," said Tom callously.
- (CALLOUS) This refers to a hardening or thickening typically of body tissues.
- (Callous) A man devoid of kind feeling and sympathy
- (Callous) It comes from the Latin word callum meaning "hard, tough skin". If someone is impenetrable by emotion, sympathy or empathy they have an emotional hard skin.
- (Callous) Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others
- (Callous) excessive build up of the hard tough layers of skin.
- (callous) (adj.) harsh, cold, unfeeling (The murderer’s callous lack of remorse shocked the jury.)
- (callous) Unfeeling, not sensitive, lacking compassion or pity. See: yama-niyama.
- (callous) hard formation of tissue covering a wound
- A physician who advises the parents of a young boy with Down syndrome that their son will never be aware of his appearance or hair loss because he is mongoloid.