callosity

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Etymology

From Middle English callosite, collositee, calosite, from Anglo-Norman calosité (compare Old French chalosité), from Latin callōsitās, equivalent to callous +‎ -ity.

Noun

callosity (countable and uncountable, plural callosities)

1. (countable) A callus.
2. (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.

Derived terms

• ischial callosity

Translations

callus — see callus

insensitivity — see callousness,‎ insensitivity

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• stoically