Callousness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Callousness is a noun meaning The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
Meaning
The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
More Meanings
- The quality of having calluses.
Example Sentences
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."
Word Forms
- callousnesses
Synonyms for callousness
Depending on context, synonyms include callosity, hardheartedness, insensitivity, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include insensibility, unfeelingness, hardness, callosity, cold-heartedness, cruel-heartedness.
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