Induration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Induration \In`du*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio
     hardness of heart.]
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     1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
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     2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard.
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     3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.;
        obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling.
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              A certain induration of character had arisen from
              long habits of business.              --Coleridge.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  induration
       n : any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: {sclerosis}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "induration":
     Philistinism, armor, callosity, callousness, callus, flintiness,
     formidable defenses, hard heart, hard shell, hardenedness,
     hardheartedness, hardness, hardness of heart, heart of stone,
     imperviousness, insensitiveness, insensitivity, inuredness,
     obduracy, obdurateness, rhinoceros hide, stoniness, thick skin