callousness
6
7.4
- noun
- /ˈkæləsnəs/
:
insensibilidad
- The community was appalled by the callousness shown towards the homeless during the winter storm.
OK, lack of empathy actually broke into two pieces, callousness and sadism.
- OK, lack of empathy actually broke into two pieces, callousness and sadism.
- She's not doing it out of callousness or cruelty.
Examples
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Already in the 1920s, the financial district was known for greed and callousness.
Blog text (20) -
But that was as nothing to the callousness I then witnessed in Mr. Mandrake himself.
Fiction book (1993) -
But I suppose it's just the callousness of your kind.
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So the callousness with which that was done is shocking to me.
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People said I was the height of callousness.
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What becomes evident is a certain callousness in the behavior of the couple.
Academic text (1997) -
Whatever the cause of individual callousness, the plight of street children will not improve until basic social problems are addressed.
Academic text (1995) -
The comment also reveals a callousness and divisiveness that's the opposite of what we need now.
Blog text (12) -
There I write poems, and my mother keeps peeking in and is shocked at my callousness and indifference.
Fiction book (1998) -
The near enemy of equanimity is unintelligent indifference or callousness.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
4
6.3
Lack of feeling or kindness in someone's behavior
3
4.1
Lack of care for other people
1
6.8
A lack of care for other people that makes people act unkindly
1
7.2
A cold, uncaring way of treating other people
1
8.4
A complete lack of pity or kindness toward others
A lack of care or sympathy
A lack of pity or kindness toward other people
A lack of feeling or care for other people's pain
To not care about other people's feelings or needs
Not caring about other people
A lack of pity or mercy for other people
Not showing kindness or forgiveness to others
Lack of pity or care for other people
Antonyms
How Unfeeling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Callousness comes from callus, a word for a 'hard patch of skin' that grows on hands or feet from repeated use. So callousness means a kind of 'hardness' of feeling — someone who is not moved by other people's pain.