Definition for Callousness:

• devoid of passion or feeling

Synonyms for Callousness:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • callousness,
  • callosity,
  • insensibility,
  • hardness.
  •coarseness (noun)
  • ribaldry,
  • bawdiness,
  • unevenness,
  • smuttiness,
  • harshness,
  • roughness.
  •cruelty (noun)
  • coldness,
  • despotism,
  • truculence,
  • viciousness,
  • barbarism,
  • masochism,
  • rancor,
  • persecution,
  • torture,
  • malice,
  • fierceness,
  • venom,
  • malignity,
  • sadism,
  • depravity,
  • animality,
  • barbarity,
  • wickedness,
  • bestiality.
  •hardness (noun)
  • solidity,
  • firmness,
  • intractibility,
  • temper,
  • rigidity,
  • stiffness.
  •thick skin (noun)
  • armor,
  • numbness,
  • imperviousness.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • bloodthirstiness,
  • boorishness,
  • coarseness,
  • crassness,
  • crudity,
  • cruelty,
  • ferocity,
  • hardheartedness,
  • heartlessness,
  • indelicacy,
  • indifference,
  • ingratitude,
  • inhumanity,
  • insensitiveness,
  • mercilessness,
  • murderousness,
  • offensiveness,
  • ruthlessness,
  • savageness,
  • savagery,
  • severity,
  • smut,
  • spite,
  • spitefulness,
  • thick skin,
  • truculency,
  • uncouthness,
  • unfeelingness,
  • unkindness,
  • Earthiness,
  • Rawness,
  • Crudities,
  • brutishness,
  • fiendishness,
  • Hard-heartedness,
  • in consequence,
  • poor taste,
  • ferocities,
  • hard shell,
  • uncouthnesses,
  • unrefinement,
  • elephant skin,
  • formidable defenses,
  • rhinoceros hide,
  • thick hide,
  • thick shell.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abdomen,
  • abide,
  • abrasiveness,
  • absolutism,
  • adamance,
  • affection,
  • affectionateness,
  • agony,
  • anaesthesia,
  • anguish,
  • animal nature,
  • anneal,
  • answer,
  • archness,
  • armour,
  • asperity,
  • assumption,
  • atrociousness,
  • audaciousness,
  • austereness,
  • authoritarianism,
  • awkwardness,
  • backbone,
  • bad weather,
  • badness,
  • barbarousness,
  • bear,
  • beastliness,
  • becharm,
  • beguile,
  • belly,
  • bequeath,
  • bewitch,
  • biliousness,
  • bitchiness,
  • bitterness,
  • bosom,
  • brass,
  • breadbasket,
  • breakup,
  • brook,
  • bruise,
  • brush aside,
  • caesarism,
  • captivate,
  • capture,
  • carbon black,
  • carefreeness,
  • catch,
  • cattiness,
  • center,
  • centre,
  • charm,
  • chasten,
  • cheek,
  • cheekiness,
  • chilliness,
  • choppiness,
  • closeness,
  • closure,
  • clumsiness,
  • cogency,
  • cold,
  • comatoseness,
  • commonness,
  • compactness,
  • concentration,
  • conclusion,
  • condescension,
  • conk,
  • contemn,
  • contempt,
  • core,
  • corruption,
  • courageousness,
  • crassitude,
  • crock,
  • crudeness,
  • cruelness,
  • crust,
  • cull,
  • cut,
  • daring,
  • dark,
  • darkness,
  • daze,
  • decision,
  • declaration,
  • deficiency,
  • degeneracy,
  • denseness,
  • deplumate,
  • deplume,
  • despise,
  • despite,
  • dictatorship,
  • digest,
  • dimness,
  • dirtiness,
  • disaffection,
  • discount,
  • disengagement,
  • dismiss,
  • disorderliness,
  • dispassionateness,
  • displume,
  • disrespect,
  • distance,
  • distastefulness,
  • distortion,
  • dryness,
  • electric resistance,
  • electrical resistance,
  • enamor,
  • enamour,
  • enchant,
  • enchantment,
  • endure,
  • entrance,
  • essence,
  • estrangement,
  • evil,
  • excruciate,
  • exemption,
  • eye,
  • face,
  • faint,
  • faintheartedness,
  • fairness,
  • fascinate,
  • fearlessness,
  • ferociousness,
  • filth,
  • filthiness,
  • finding,
  • flashiness,
  • flatness,
  • fleece,
  • fondness,
  • foolhardiness,
  • force,
  • formidability,
  • foulness,
  • freeze off,
  • freshness,
  • furiousness,
  • fury,
  • gall,
  • gaminess,
  • garishness,
  • gaucheness,
  • gaudiness,
  • gazump,
  • gist,
  • glitz,
  • gracelessness,
  • graininess,
  • granting immunity,
  • granularity,
  • grimness,
  • grit,
  • grogginess,
  • grossness,
  • gumption,
  • gutsiness,
  • harden,
  • hardhearted,
  • hardihood,
  • hardiness,
  • hardship,
  • haughtiness,
  • heart and soul,
  • heinousness,
  • hook,
  • humbleness,
  • humor,
  • humour,
  • hurt,
  • huskiness,
  • hustle,
  • iciness,
  • ignore,
  • illogic,
  • illogicality,
  • illogicalness,
  • immorality,
  • impedance,
  • impenetrableness,
  • impenitency,
  • imperturbability,
  • imperturbableness,
  • impudence,
  • inactiveness,
  • inactivity,
  • inadvertence,
  • inadvertency,
  • inanition,
  • inanity,
  • inattentiveness,
  • inclementness,
  • inconsideration,
  • indentation,
  • inflexibility,
  • inhuman treatment,
  • inhumaneness,
  • iniquity,
  • injure,
  • insularism,
  • insularity,
  • insulation,
  • inwardness,
  • irritability,
  • irritation,
  • jitteriness,
  • jumpiness,
  • kernel,
  • kindling,
  • lampblack,
  • languor,
  • lassitude,
  • leave,
  • lewdness,
  • lightheartedness,
  • lightsomeness,
  • limbo,
  • loathsomeness,
  • lordliness,
  • loudness,
  • lousiness,
  • low temperature,
  • malevolence,
  • malevolency,
  • malignance,
  • malignancy,
  • marrow,
  • materialism,
  • meat,
  • meretriciousness,
  • middle,
  • mindlessness,
  • minginess,
  • miss,
  • moderate,
  • mollify,
  • monocracy,
  • mood,
  • moxie,
  • nefariousness,
  • neglect,
  • neglectfulness,
  • nervelessness,
  • nervousness,
  • nervus,
  • niggardliness,
  • nip,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • nonintervention,
  • nonpartisanship,
  • nonperformance,
  • normalize,
  • nub,
  • nubbiness,
  • obscenity,
  • obscureness,
  • odiousness,
  • offence,
  • offend,
  • offense,
  • offensive activity,
  • one-man rule,
  • opposition,
  • overcharge,
  • overrefinement,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • parsimony,
  • pass out,
  • passiveness,
  • patronage,
  • peevishness,
  • perkiness,
  • pertness,
  • petrifaction,
  • pettishness,
  • pick,
  • pick off,
  • pique,
  • pith,
  • pitting,
  • pluckiness,
  • plume,
  • plunk,
  • pointlessness,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • presumption,
  • primitiveness,
  • primitivism,
  • pull,
  • pump,
  • punk,
  • purpose,
  • push aside,
  • putrefaction,
  • raciness,
  • rack,
  • raggedness,
  • rancour,
  • rashness,
  • rebelliousness,
  • reject,
  • remoteness,
  • repulsiveness,
  • resentment,
  • resistivity,
  • resistor,
  • resoluteness,
  • resolve,
  • resolving,
  • resolving power,
  • result,
  • rigidness,
  • rob,
  • roll,
  • rough water,
  • rowdiness,
  • rowdyism,
  • salaciousness,
  • salacity,
  • saltiness,
  • sand,
  • sclerosis,
  • scorn,
  • scratchiness,
  • season,
  • semiconsciousness,
  • separation,
  • settlement,
  • shamelessness,
  • shock,
  • shogunate,
  • sin,
  • sinfulness,
  • skittishness,
  • slackness,
  • sliminess,
  • sloppiness,
  • sluggishness,
  • smut fungus,
  • snappishness,
  • snub,
  • soak,
  • solidness,
  • solution,
  • solvent,
  • solving,
  • soot,
  • sootiness,
  • soundness,
  • spell,
  • spiciness,
  • spirit,
  • spiritlessness,
  • spurn,
  • sputum,
  • stalinism,
  • stamina,
  • stand,
  • standoffishness,
  • staying power,
  • steadiness,
  • steel,
  • stick out,
  • stolidness,
  • stonyhearted,
  • straining,
  • strikingness,
  • stupefaction,
  • substance,
  • suffer,
  • sum,
  • support,
  • surcharge,
  • surliness,
  • syncope,
  • tawdriness,
  • tear,
  • temerity,
  • tenderness,
  • testament,
  • ticker,
  • tightfistedness,
  • tightness,
  • tinder,
  • tolerate,
  • torment,
  • torpidness,
  • totalitarianism,
  • touchwood,
  • tum,
  • tummy,
  • turn down,
  • turpitude,
  • tweak,
  • tweediness,
  • twisting,
  • tyranny,
  • ugliness,
  • underground,
  • unemotionality,
  • ungratefulness,
  • unsusceptibility,
  • unthoughtfulness,
  • unyieldingness,
  • vacuity,
  • validity,
  • variability,
  • vehemence,
  • vengefulness,
  • venter,
  • vileness,
  • violation,
  • volition,
  • vulgarism,
  • vulgarity,
  • want,
  • warmheartedness,
  • warmness,
  • wildness,
  • withdrawal,
  • withdrawnness,
  • wound,
  • zooerastia,
  • zooerasty,
  • erotica,
  • dirty word,
  • put up,
  • brush off,
  • pull off,
  • high-handedness,
  • firmness of purpose,
  • porno,
  • pornography,
  • porn,
  • rigourousness,
  • torturing,
  • sodomy.

Antonyms for Callousness:

• n.

  • coarseness
    manners, delicacy, sophistication, politeness, refinement.
  • cruelty
    thoughtfulness, mercy, feeling, gentility, compassion, charity, kindness, love, niceness, consideration.
  • inconsequence
    activity, liveliness, life.
  • indifference
    sympathy, regard, concern, esteem, bias, attention, interest, involvement, respect, caring.
  • ingratitude
    appreciation, gratitude.

Callousness Sentence Examples:

• I can hardly blame her because while they are only little children their callousness is positively diabolical.

• He found Clancy closeted with a big man who had just lighted a fat cigar, and this fact in itself betokened official callousness as to Winifred's fate.

Hypernym for Callousness:

• n.

  • attribute
    dullness.

Hyponym for Callousness:

• n.

  • attribute
    insensitiveness, insensitivity.