callosity

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Noun

callosity (countable and uncountable, plural callosities)

  1. (countable) A callus
  2. (uncountable) A callous demeanour; insensitivity or hardheartedness
    • 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 1, page 291:
      The repetition of religious duties, without the feeling or spirit of religion, produces an incurable callosity of heart.

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