induration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=du=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

induration, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio hardness of heart.].

•  The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.  [1913 Webster]
•  State of being indurated, or of having become hard.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; lack of pliancy or feeling.  [1913 Webster]

  "A certain induration of character had arisen from long habits of business."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

induration

Impenitence

N impenitence, irrepentance, recusance, lack of contrition, hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy, impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate, hard, hardened, seared, recusant, unrepentant, relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless, lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable, unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed, unrepented, unreclaimed, unatoned.

Hardness

N hardness, rigidity, renitence, renitency, inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity, induration, petrifaction, lapidification, lapidescence, vitrification, ossification, crystallization, stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz, granite, adamant, bone, cartilage, hardware, heart of oak, block, board, deal board, iron, steel, cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron, nail, brick, concrete, cement, hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm, starch, starched, stark, unbending, unlimber, unyielding, inflexible, tense, indurate, indurated, gritty, proof, adamant, adamantine, adamantean, concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic, vitreous, horny, corneous, bony, osseous, ossific, cartilaginous, hard as a rock, stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker, stiff as starch, stiff as as board.