callousness
callousness noun: the quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
Noun
callousness (usually uncountable, plural callousnesses)
- 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.1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Soul of Laploshka”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 69
- Synonyms:
- callosity, hardheartedness, insensitivity
- The quality of having calluses.
callousness meaning in Hindi and Tamil
callousness in Hindi
- quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference
- संवेदनहीनता samvednahīntā, उदासीनता udāsīntā, अनुरागहीनता anurāghīntā
callousness in Tamil
- கல்மனம்
Synonyms of callousness
Forms of callousness
| plural | callousnesses |
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Origin of callousness
From callous + -ness.
Questions about callousness
- What does callousness mean?
- Callousness means the quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
- What is callousness in Hindi?
- Callousness in Hindi is संवेदनहीनता (samvednahīntā), उदासीनता (udāsīntā), अनुरागहीनता (anurāghīntā). See Callousness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is callousness?
- Callousness is a noun.
- What is the plural of callousness?
- The plural of callousness is callousnesses.
Words near callousness in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: callousness (page history and authors); callousness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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