資料來源 : pyDict
硬化,無情,頑固
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Induration \In`du*ra"tion\, n. [Cf. F. induration, L. induratio
hardness of heart.]
1. The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
2. State of being indurated, or of having become hard.
3. Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.;
obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling.
A certain induration of character had arisen from
long habits of business. --Coleridge.
資料來源 : WordNet®
induration
n : any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue [syn: {sclerosis}]