callosity

noun

Definition of callositynext
as in coldness

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Recent Examples of callosity The 17-year-old mother, named for a callosity near her blowhole that looks like a snow cone, no longer had the same girth or the dark black skin of a healthy right whale. — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022 The callosity patterns, like fingerprints, are unique to each whale, allowing researchers who have pored over whale catalogue photos to recognize plenty in the wild. — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Apr. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for callosity
  1. coldness
  2. callousness
  3. hardness
  4. heartlessness
  5. obduracy
  6. numbness
  7. insensitivity
  8. phlegm
Noun
  • The house was a metaphor for the coldness of a relationship that’s faded and atrophied.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
  • The danger occurs if that ruthlessness veers into institutional coldness.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of coldness
Noun
  • Vicki brushes it off, and even Shannon can’t defend her friend’s callousness.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of callousness
Noun
  • There’s a certain softness to Peter’s eyes and a hardness in Telemachus’s brow.
    — Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Heating the alloy to 750°C (1,382°F) reduced its grain size by roughly 90%, while raising its hardness by 60 Vickers units.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of hardness
Noun
  • These young graduates start out naive about the heartlessness of the corporate world and harbor illusory hopes for success in unforgiving professions.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.
    — Ginny Tapley Takemori September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Definition of heartlessness
Noun
  • Perhaps the greatest testament to Morocco’s obduracy came late in normal time, when Rodri — a central midfielder being deployed as a central defender — strode forward and shot, more in hope than in expectation, from 35 yards.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But a year later, more than two dozen of them remain stuck in Afghanistan, stalled by bureaucratic wrangling, the vagaries of international diplomacy and the obduracy of the Taliban government.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
Definition of obduracy
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  • However, in July 2024, her symptoms started getting worse as the then-20-year-old started experiencing numbness on the left side of her body and vision problems.
    — Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2026
  • In a rare occurrence, Bardot’s 80-minute AI drama that, according to the synopsis, examines contemporary alienation and numbness in today’s world of hyper-connectivity, is set for a spring 2027 release across 20 cities in Turkey via Baska Sinema.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of numbness
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  • In a variation on her character from Parasite, Cho deftly underplays Yi-je’s insensitivity as another woman projecting a blithe lack of awareness of her privilege.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Sherman is known to savage, with unglamorous insensitivity, the vaunted creative directors of the great houses.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of insensitivity
Noun
  • Symptoms can include shortness of breath and coughing or blood in the phlegm.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Any confusion, difficulty walking, shortness of breath or coughing up significant phlegm should prompt an immediate descent.
    — Elaine Reno, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of phlegm

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“Callosity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callosity. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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