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
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 Waller, Horace
Running barefooted in the snow is exceptional nowadays; but it is by no means the limit of hardiness or callosity that some of these people display.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
Their feet, by this kind of exercise, contract a callosity which renders the use of shoes quite unnecessary to them.
There is one on the Shameen bridge who has a callosity like a horn on his forehead, with which he strikes the pavement and produces an audible thump.
From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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
Sometimes black often brown or mottled with regions of white on chin and belly; patches of yellowish to pink callosities and lice encrusting the snout in what has been called a "rock garden."
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by Caldwell, David
They are quite out of their own track, and very much in the way of elderly ladies and gentlemen who have pet "callosities."
From Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves by Broderip, Frances Freeling
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