induration

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

induration
    n 1: any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn:
         {sclerosis}, {induration}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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