Definitions for: Callous

[adj] emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
[v] make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals

Webster (1913) Definition: Cal"lous, a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum,
callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.]
1. Hardened; indurated. ``A callous hand.'' --Goldsmith. ``A
callous ulcer.'' --Dunglison.

2. Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.
``The callous diplomatist.'' --Macaulay.

It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to
ridicule. --T. Arnold.

Syn: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible;
unfeeling; unsusceptible. See Obdurate. --
Cal"lous*ly, adv. -- Cal"lous*ness, n.

A callousness and numbness of soul. --Bentley.

Synonyms: cauterise, cauterize, indurate, insensitive, pachydermatous, thick-skinned

See Also: harden, indurate, inure

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