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Definition: Callosity |
CallosityNoun1. An area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | 1)a callosity or hard, thick skin;2)the bone-like reparative substance that is formed round the edges and fragments of broken bone. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CallositySynonym: callus (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Hardness | Noun: hardness. Adjective: rigidity; renitence, renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Callosity |
| English words defined with "callosity": Callosities ♦ Ischial callosity ♦ Sitfast. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "callosity": Callid. (references) |
Expression using "callosity": Ischial callosity. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
callosity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "callosity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | trashje lëkure, pashpirtësi, pandjeshmëri (impassibility, insensibility, insensitivity), kallo (callus). (various references) | |
Arabic | قسوة الفؤاد (obduracy), صلابة (hardihood, hardness, hards, inflexibility, iron, perseverance, reliability, resistance, rigidity, rigorism, singleness, solidity, soundness, stability, steadiness, stiffness, stoutness, strength, stubbornness, tenacity, toughmindness, toughness), صلب (adamant, aguish, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, out and out, persistent, ramrod, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грубост (asperity, barbarity, broadness, crudity, curtness, foulness, harshness, incivility, indelicacy, roughness, rudeness, toughness, truculence), втвърденост, мазол (callus, corn), безсърдечие (callousness, obduracy). (various references) | |
Danish | cutis callosus (cutis callosa), callus (callus), callositet (callus), callositas, tyloma, kallositet, haard hud (cutis callosa), hård hud (callus), fortykket interlobærlinie (interlabar thickening). (various references) | |
Dutch | callus (callus), callositeit (cutis callosa), callositas (cutis callosa), tylosis, tylose, hyperkeratosis (hyperkeratosis), hyperkeratose (hyperkeratosis), eeltplek (cutis callosa), eelt (callosoty of hands, corn, cutis callosa). (various references) | |
Farsi | سخت شدن یاپینه کردن پوست . (various references) | |
Finnish | känsä (callus, corn). (various references) | |
French | callosité (callus, cutis callosa). (various references) | |
German | Cutis callosa (cutis callosa), Callus, Callositas, Tylositas, Tylosis, Tyloma, Schwielenhaut (cutis callosa), Schwiele (bunion, callus, corn, weal, welt), Kallus (bole scar, callus), Interlobärschwiele (interlabar thickening), Interlobärschwarte (interlabar thickening), Interlobärleiste (interlabar thickening), Hyperkerarose, Hornschwiele, Hautschwiele. (various references) | |
Greek | τύλωμα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kérgesség (callus). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tebal telinga, tak berperasaan (impassive). (various references) | |
Italian | callosit (callous growth, callus, clavus, corn, cutis callosa, horniness). (various references) | |
Manx | seggys, creoighys (hardness, obduracy, sternness, stiffness), cratnagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allositycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calosidade (callous growth, callousness, callus, clavus, corn, cutis callosa). (various references) | |
Romanian | cruzime (barbarity, brutality, cruelty, excess, feliness, fierceness, inhumanity, savagery), calozitate (callousness), bãtãturã (callus, corn, weft, woof), asprime (abruptness, acerbity, acrimony, asperity, bitterness, callousness, coarseness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity, sharpness, sternness, stringency), învârtoşare (callous, obduracy). (various references) | |
Russian | омозолелость (callus), мозолистость (callus), затвердение. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadebljanje (thickening), neosetljivost (impassibility, impassivity, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility), žulj (callus, corn). (various references) | |
Spanish | callosidad (cutis callosa), callo (bole scar, callous tissue, callus, callus tissue, corn). (various references) | |
Swedish | valk (a hair pad, bank, bank of rubber, callus, flange, pad, proud seam, roll, weal). (various references) | |
Turkish | nasır tutma, nasır (callus, corn, splint). (various references) | |
Ukranian | мозоля (callus, corn), затвердіння (calcification, callus, congelation, consolidation, hardening, induration, solidification). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Callosity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calasanti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "callosity" (pronounced 'Cal*los"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability, Alterity, Alternity, Amability, Ambidexterity, Ambiguity, Amenability, Amenity, Amiability, Amicability, Amissibility, Amity, Amorosity, Amovability, Anaplasty, Anfractuosity, Anglicity, Angularity, Angulosity, Anility, Animality, Animosity, Annuity, Annularity, Anonymity, Anteriority, Antiquity, Anxiety, Appetibility, Applicability, Apprehensibiity, Approachability, Appropinquity, Apriority, Aqueity, Aquosity, Aridity, Artificiality, Asininity, Asperity, Assiduity, Assignability, Assimilability, Associability, Astucity, Atomicity, Atrocity, Attainability, Attractability, Attractivity, Audacity, Audibility, Austerity, Authenticity, Authority, Autoplasty, Autostability, availability, Avidity, Banality, Barbarity, Basicity, Batty, BEAUTY, Benignity, Bestiality, Betty, Bibacity, Biblicality, Biformity, Bilaterality, Biplicity, Bipolarity, Bolty, Booty, BOUNTY, Brevity, Bridalty, Brutality, Butty, Caducity, Calamity, Calidity, Caliginosity, Callidity, Caloricity, Canonicity, Canthoplasty, Canty, Capability, Capacity, Capillarity, Captivity, Cariosity, Carnality, Carnivoracity, Carnosity, Casualty, Catholicity, Catty, Causality, Cavity, Cecity, Celebrity, Celerity, Centrality, Centricity, Cerebricity, Certainty, Champerty, Changeability, Charity, Chastity, Cheiloplasty, Christianity, Circuity, Circularity, Circumstantiality, Civillty, Clandestinity, Clarity, Clericity, Clivity, Clotty, Coactivity, Coagulability, Coequality, Coessentiality, Coeternity, Cogitability, Cognoscibility, Cohesibility, Collectivity, Colloidality, Columnarity, Combustibility, Comicality, Comity, Commensality, Commensurability, Commodity, Commonalty, Commonty, Communicability, Community, Commutability, Compaternity, Compatibility, Complexity, Complicity, Comprehensibility, Compressibility, Concavity, Concentricity, Conceptibility, Concinnity, Condensability, Condignity, Conditionality, Conducibility, Conductibility, Conductivity, Confinity, Confluxibility, Conformability, Conformity, Confraternity, Confusability, Congeniality, Congruity, Conicality, Conjugality, Connaturality, Connubiality, Consanguinity, Consentaneity, Conspectuity, Conspicuity, Constitutionality, Consubstantiality, Contemporaneity, Contemptibility, Contiguity, Continuity, Contractibility, Contractility, Contrariety, Controllability, Conventionality, Convertibility, Convexity, Convicinity, Conviviality, Cordiality, Coreplasty, Corporality, Corporeality, Corporeity, Corrigibility, Corrodibility, Corrosibility, Corruptibility, Cosurety, Cotqueanity, County, Credibility, Credulity, Criminality, Crinosity, Crocodility, Crudity, Cruelty, Cullibility, Culpability, Cupidity, Curability, Curiality, Curiosity, Curvilinearity, Curvity, Cutty, Cylindricity, Cytty, Damnability, Debility, Debonairity, Deceptivity, Deciduity, Declivity, Deducibility, Defectibility, Defectuosity, Defensibility, Deflagrability, Deformity, Deiformity, Deity, Demisability, Democraty, Demonstrability, Demurity, Density, Deplorability, Depravity, Deputy, Descendibility, Desirability, Despicability, Destructibility, Deteriority, Determinability, Detestability, Devexity, Devotionality, Dexterity, Dextrality, Diaphaneity, Dibasicity, Dicacity, Didacticity, Difficulty, Difformity, Diffusibility, Diffusivity, Digestibility, Dignity, Dilatability, Dimensity, Dimity, Disability, Disassiduity, Discommodity, Discommunity, Disconformity, Discongruity, Discontinuity, Discoverability, Disensanity, Disformity, Dishonesty, Disingenuity, Disloyalty, Disparity, Disproperty, Disputacity, Disquantity, Disreputability, Disrespectability, Dissimilarity, Dissipativity, Dissociability, Dissolubility, Dissolvability, Distensibility, Disunity, Diuturnity, Diversifiability, Diversity, Divinity, Divisibility, Docility, Docity, Domesticity, Dotty, Doty, Doughty, Drasty, Duality, Dubiety, Dubiosity, Ductility, Duplicity, Durability, Durity, Duty, Dynasty, Ebriety, Ebriosity, Eccentricity, Edacity, Edibility, Educability, Efficacity, Effumability, Egality, Egoity, Elasticity, Electorality, Elementality, Elementarity, Eligibility, Ellipticity, Emotivity, Empty, Enmity, Enomoty, Enormity, Entierty, Entirety, Entity, Ephoralty, Epulosity, Equability, Equality, Equanimity, Equilibrity, Equity, Erectility, Essentiality, Eternity, Ethereality. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stoically. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: coitally, localist, locality, loyalist, socially. | |
-2 letters: citolas, saltily, stoical. | |
-3 letters: aliyos, aliyot, allots, alloys, atolls, citola, coatis, coital, cosily, costal, costly, lacily, lastly, lilacs, locals, octyls, scilla, scotia, social, stilly, tallis, ticals, tolyls. | |
-4 letters: acyls, alist, allot, alloy, altos, ascot, atoll, calls, calos, clast, clays, clits, clots, cloys, coals, coaly, coast, coati, coats, coils, colas, colly, colts, costa, iotas, laics, laity, lilac, lilts, litas, local, lotas, lotic, loyal, lytic, octal, octyl, ollas, ostia, salic, sally, salol, salty, scall, scaly, silly, silty, slaty, slily, stall, still, stoai, stoic, styli, tacos, tails, talcs, tally, tical, tills, toils, tolas, tolls, tolyl, yills. | |
-5 letters: acts, acyl, ails, aits, alit, alls, ally, also, alto, alts, asci, call, calo, cast, cats, cays, ciao, cist, city, clay, clit, clot, cloy, coal, coat, coil, cola, cols, colt, coly, cost, cosy, cots, coys, cyst, ills, illy, iota, lacs, lacy, laic, last, lati, lats, lays, lilt, lily, list, lits, loca, loci, lost, lota, loti, lots, oast, oats, ocas, oils, oily, olla, otic, sail, sall, salt, sati, scat, scot, sial, sill, silo, silt, slat, slay, slit, slot, soil, sola, soli, soya, stay, stoa, syli, taco, tail, talc, tali, tall, taos, tics, till, tils, toil, tola, toll, toys, yill. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-l-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: societally. | |
+2 letters: crystalloid, oscillatory, osmotically, plasmolytic, sectionally, somatically. | |
+3 letters: acoustically, acrostically, antisocially, aoristically, calamitously, cosmetically, crystalloids, despotically, domestically, egoistically, esoterically, historically, holistically, isotonically, isotopically, logistically, monastically, myeloblastic, octosyllabic, synoptically. | |
+4 letters: agonistically, atomistically, bisectionally, bombastically, complaisantly, crystalloidal, dactylologies, egotistically, floristically, glycosylating, glycosylation, isometrically, isosmotically, isostatically, lymphoblastic, nostalgically, obstetrically, octosyllabics, onomastically, orgiastically, polydactylies, postcranially, psychotically, semitonically, sophistically, syllabication, symbiotically, thrasonically, touristically. | |
+5 letters: acetylcholines, acrylonitriles, allosterically, aphoristically, aposematically, astrologically, astronomically, asymptotically, collapsibility, coloristically, cytostatically, diagnostically, disconsolately, estrogenically, eulogistically, glycosylations, hedonistically, histologically, histrionically, hypostatically, isentropically, jingoistically, moralistically, noncrystalline, novelistically, optimistically, pleonastically, polytheistical, prosthetically, scholastically, stochastically, syllabications, telescopically, theosophically, ultrasonically. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-.. .-.. --- ... .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a l l o s i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 006C 006C 006F 0073 0069 0074 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376778788185758691 |
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