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Callous vs Callout - What's the difference?

callous | callout |

As an adjective callous

is emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.

As a noun callout is

(communication) outward bound telephone calls.

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

    callout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (communication) Outward bound telephone calls.
  • (slang) An invitation to fight; the act of one child calling out another.
  • (typography, graphic layout) A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
  • A summons to someone designated as being on call
  • An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
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