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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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."
Use callousness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Callousness means The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference..
Common synonyms include callosity, hardheartedness, insensitivity, hardness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Fred was known for his callousness; local panhandlers had long since learned not to try their sob stories on him.
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