callosity

Other forms of callosity

plural

callosities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about callosity

What does callosity mean?

callosity means "an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in callosity?

callosity has 4 syllables: cal-lo-si-ty. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for callosity?

Close synonyms include callus, unfeelingness, callousness, hardness, insensibility. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is callosity a common word?

callosity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.