callosity
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English
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)
- (countable) A callus.
- (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
Translations
callus — see callus