'Induration' definitions:
Definition of 'induration'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: sclerosis, induration]
Definition of 'Induration'
From: GCIDE
- Induration \In`du*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio hardness of heart.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard. [1913 Webster]
- 2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'induration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Philistinism,
- rhinoceros hide,
- stoniness,
- thick skin