hard-heartedness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

"It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times."
"For where is the hard-heartedness in sending away honorably and freely a woman who, through her own fault, you cannot love?"

From hard-hearted + -ness.

hard-heartednesses (plural)

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