callousness
/kˈæləsnəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.28 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Fred was known for his callousness; local panhandlers had long since learned not to try their sob stories on him."
- "To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable."
- ""The image of workers who had embraced each other as concrete crushed them — that final act of human kindness in the face of death — shattered my callousness completely.""
Etymology
Etymology tree English callous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English callousness From callous + -ness.