noun
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hardheartedness
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another name for callus
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Etymology
Origin of callosity
1375–1425; late Middle English calosite < Late Latin callōsitās, equivalent to callōs ( us ) callous + -itās -ity
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There is Van Halen, named after a callosity shaped like a guitar.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013
The skin very soon hardens into a callosity.
From Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann
A large callosity forms on the shoulders of the regular Unyamwesi porters, from the heavy weights laid on them.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
A sense of honor without callosity is never blunted for such attacks.
From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul
On my forefinger it has made a callosity.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
Marine experts will compare its genetic material and the patches of raised tissue on its head, known as callosities, against a vast library of genetic data from right whales.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
They developed a method of identifying individual whales in part by the raised and roughened patches, called callosities, growing in unique patterns on their skin.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2018
Both natural and unnatural markings are useful: propeller scars, but also callosities, patches of rough skin that are white because they are infested with cyamids, licelike parasites.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 9, 2013
The ridges increase in height as the skin is thickened by hard usage, until callosities begin to be formed, which may altogether hide them.
From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton
Lastly, in the Baboon family, the adult male of Cynocephalus hamadryas differs from the female not only by his immense mane, but slightly in the colour of the hair and of the naked callosities.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin
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