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Vinony

callousness

noun

  1. lack of feeling/hard-heartedness
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English callous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English callousness From callous + -ness.

  1. 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.”

  2. The quality of having calluses.