callosity
nounEtymology From Middle English callosite, collositee, calosite, from Anglo-Norman calosité (compare Old French chalosité), from Latin callōsitās, equivalent to callous + -ity.
1
A callus.
2
A callous demeanour; insensitivity or hardheartedness.
- The repetition of religious duties, without the feeling or spirit of religion, produces an incurable callosity of heart.1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 291:
- Derived terms
- ischial callosity