Meaning of Callousness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
   uncountable, usually
2. The quality of having calluses.
   uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“"The image of workers who had embraced each other as concrete crushed them — that final act of human kindness in the face of death — shattered my callousness completely."”

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