callousness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: callousness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for callousness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
callousness n devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Callous \Cal"lous\, a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum, callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.] 1. Hardened; indurated. [bd]A callous hand.[b8] --Goldsmith. [bd]A callous ulcer.[b8] --Dunglison. 2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. [bd]The callous diplomatist.[b8] --Macaulay. It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule. --T. Arnold. Syn: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See {Obdurate}. -- {Cal"lously}, adv. -- {Cal"lousness}, n. A callousness and numbness of soul. --Bentley.