Pachydermy
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A condition in which the skin thickens and becomes hardened or verrucous. uncountable
"If, as the inflammation recurs, the pachydermy spread beyond the point originally attacked, all the different grades of the disease are often exhibited simultaneously in the same extremity."
- 2 Insensitivity. uncountable
"The haughty foreign secretary, to whom for the next fifty years all stories of aristocratic pachydermy were attached, was still to come."
Example
More examples"If, as the inflammation recurs, the pachydermy spread beyond the point originally attacked, all the different grades of the disease are often exhibited simultaneously in the same extremity."
Etymology
From pachy- + derm + -y.