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Definition: Callousness |
CallousnessNoun1. Devoid of passion or feeling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "callousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: CallousnessSynonyms: hardness (n), insensibility (n), unfeelingness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insensibility | Cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid; stoicism, imperturbation; (inexcitability); nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance; (indifference); recklessness; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Callousness |
| English words defined with "callousness": Heart hardness. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "callousness": Callid. (references) |
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| "Callousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Callousness" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "callousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | egërsi (atrocity, bestiality, cruelty, ferocity, fierceness, furiosity, fury, ill-treatment, inclemency, rabidity, rabies, savagery, truculence, virulence). (various references) | |
Arabic | القسوة (dourness), الصلابة (sclerotic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безсърдечие (callosity, obduracy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 情 (Callous, heartless, inhumanity, ruthlessness, unfeeling, unsympathetic). (various references) | |
Czech | necitelnost (impassability, insensibility). (various references) | |
French | manque de c"ur, dureté, brutalité (cannibalism). (various references) | |
German | Schwieligkeit. (various references) | |
Hungarian | érzéketlenség (anaesthesia, analgesia, apathy, blind spot, bluntness, brutality, dispassion, impassibility, impassivity, insensibility, insensitivity, insusceptibility, stoniness, stupor). (various references) | |
Manx | feayrid cree, creoiys cree (heartlessness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allousnesscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | calosidade (callosity, callous growth, callus, clavus, corn, cutis callosa), insensibilidade (flintiness, indolence, induration, insensibility, stupor), indiferença (aloofness, apathy, cold shoulder, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, easiness, estrangement, frigidity, insensibility, insouciance, listlessness, lukewarmness, nonchalance, stand-off, unconcern). (various references) | |
Romanian | calozitate (callosity), nesimţire (insensibility), duritate (asperity, crustiness, dourness, hardness, harshness, sternness), asprime (abruptness, acerbity, acrimony, asperity, bitterness, callosity, coarseness, gruffness, hardness, harshness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, roughness, rudeness, severity, sharpness, sternness, stringency), împietrire (hardening, obduracy, palsy). (various references) | |
Russian | грубость (asperity, broadness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, discourtesy, harshness, ill breeding, ribaldry, roughness, rudeness, ruffianism, scurrility, truculence). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kvrgavost, žuljevitost. (various references) | |
Spanish | insensibilidad (cold blooded, insensibility, insensitivity, numbness, thick skin). (various references) | |
Swedish | okänslighet (immunity, impassibility, impassivity, insusceptibility, numbness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | грубість (abruptness, asperity, barbarism, barbarity, broadness, brutality, clumsiness, coarseness, crudity, harshness, roughness, rusticity, shagginess, truculence), нечулість, безсердечність (cruelty), бездушність, байдужість (apathy, cold-bloodedness, coldness, indifference, insensibility, negligence, nonchalance, oscitation, unconcern). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhẫn tâm (induration, mercilessness, pitilessness, unmercifulness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | calle, callis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "callousness": callousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Callousness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: callouness, callouses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "callousness" (pronounced ka"lusnus) |
| 6 | -l u s n u s | carelessness, helplessness, homelessness, hopelessness, joblessness, lawlessness, powerlessness, recklessness, restlessness, ruthlessness, selflessness, weightlessness. |
| 5 | -u s n u s | cautiousness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, disingenuousness, fractiousness, graciousness, nervousness, outrageousness, pompousness, rebelliousness, righteousness, seriousness, unconsciousness, viciousness. |
| 4 | -s n u s | closeness, hoarseness, niceness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, calmness, casualness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, highness, holiness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, newness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, possessiveness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restrictiveness, richness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, sensitiveness, separateness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: callouses. | |
-3 letters: calloses, calluses, clonuses, coalless, counsels, lacunose, scalenus, soulless, uncloses. | |
-4 letters: callose, callous, caseous, censual, classes, clauses, consuls, counsel, ensouls, lacunes, lassoes, launces, lessons, locales, locules, loessal, nucleal, ocellus, oscules, scouses, seasons, sensual, solaces, sonless, sunless, uncases, unclose, unlaces, unseals, unsells, usances. | |
-5 letters: anoles, anuses, callus, canoes, cansos, caules, causes, cellos, census, clause. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-l-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: callousnesses. | |
+3 letters: fallaciousness, successionally. | |
+5 letters: fallaciousnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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