What is another word for hardness of heart?

Pronunciation: [hˈɑːdnəs ɒv hˈɑːt] (IPA)

The phrase "hardness of heart" refers to a person's reluctance or refusal to feel empathetic, compassionate, or understanding towards others. Some synonyms for this phrase include callousness, insensitivity, cruelty, unfeelingness, and indifference. All of these words convey a lack of emotional response that can lead to a disregard for the feelings and needs of others. Someone exhibiting these characteristics often appears cold, uninvolved, or inconsiderate. It's important to remember that everyone experiences difficulties in life, and showing kindness and empathy towards others can go a long way in helping them overcome their struggles.

What are the hypernyms for Hardness of heart?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for hardness of heart?

The antonyms for the phrase "hardness of heart" are compassion, empathy, and kindness. Individuals who possess these traits are often considered to be understanding, accepting, and forgiving towards others. Compassion refers to the ability to feel sympathy and concern for others' suffering. Empathy is the capacity to understand and share the feelings of others. Kindness is a characteristic of being friendly, generous, and considerate towards others. The presence of these antonyms is essential for building a harmonious society where people care for and support one another. It is essential to recognize the value of these qualities and strive to cultivate them in our daily lives.

What are the antonyms for Hardness of heart?

Famous quotes with Hardness of heart

  • The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
    Edward Irving
  • I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  • Nowadays, of course, progressive theologians are all sex; they say it's a good thing, the biblical position was not that sex was evil, but that it was good, and that it's alright.    But now, look here, what is the real point here? The proof of the pudding is in the eating. What can you get kicked out of the church for? Any church — Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, Baptist, and the synagogue I think too. What's the real thing for which people get kicked out, excommunicated?    For "envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness"? "Pride, vainglory, and hardness of heart"? Owning shares in munitions factories? Profiting off slums? No You can be a bishop and live in all those sins openly. But if you go to bed with the wrong person, you're out.    So one has to conclude that, for all practical purposes, the church is a sexual regulation society; and it really isn't interested in anything else. Christianity is more preoccupied with sex than even Priapism or Tantric Yoga [are]. Because that's the that counts, that's the sin, the really important sin.
    Alan Watts
  • To me, therefore, that Thracian Orpheus, that Theban, and that Methymnaean,--men, and yet unworthy of the name,--seem to have been deceivers, who, under the pretence of poetry corrupting human life, possessed by a spirit of artful sorcery for purposes of destruction, celebrating crimes in their orgies, and making human woes the materials of religious worship, were the first to entice men to idols; nay, to build up the stupidity of the nations with blocks of wood and stone,--that is, statues and images,--subjecting to the yoke of extremest bondage the truly noble freedom of those who lived as free citizens under heaven by their songs and incantations. But not such is my song, which has come to loose, and that speedily, the bitter bondage of tyrannizing demons; and leading us back to the mild and loving yoke of piety, recalls to heaven those that had been cast prostrate to the earth. It alone has tamed men, the most intractable of animals; the frivolous among them answering to the fowls of the air, deceivers to reptiles, the irascible to lions, the voluptuous to swine, the rapacious to wolves. The silly are stocks and stones, and still more senseless than stones is a man who is steeped in ignorance. As our witness, let us adduce the voice of prophecy accordant with truth, and bewailing those who are crushed in ignorance and folly: "For God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham;" and He, commiserating their great ignorance and hardness of heart who are petrified against the truth, has raised up a seed of piety, sensitive to virtue, of those stones--of the nations, that is, who trusted in stones. Again, therefore, some venomous and false hypocrites, who plotted against righteousness, he once called "a brood of vipers." But if one of those serpents even is willing to repent, and follows the Word, he becomes a man of God.
    Clement of Alexandria
  • Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like. It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love.
    Charles Kingsley

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