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Callous vs Didactic - What's the difference?

callous | didactic |

As adjectives the difference between callous and didactic

is that callous is emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others while didactic is instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry.

As a noun didactic is

a treatise on teaching or education.

callous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
    • She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
  • Having calluses.

    • Synonyms

    * heartless * insensitive

    didactic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * didactick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality. (I.e., didactic poetry)
  • * Macaulay
    • The finest didactic poem in any language.
  • Excessively moralizing.
  • (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

    • Derived terms

    * didact * didactical * didactically * didacticism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.