Why this word is great
STONYHEARTEDNESS — [Noun] The state or quality of being stonyhearted; remorselessness, cruelty, or pitilessness. From stony ("hard, unyielding") + hearted ("having a heart of a specified kind") + -ness ("forming abstract nouns indicating a state or quality"). Unlike "callousness" (which suggests a habitual insensitivity to others' suffering) or "ruthlessness" (which focuses on a lack of mercy in pursuit of goals), stonyheartedness implies an inherent, unfeeling hardness of character. It is the magistrate who sentences a starving thief to the gallows without blinking, the parent who turns their back on a weeping child, or the way a winter river freezes over—layer upon layer of ice until nothing beneath can be heard, or saved. The heart does not break; it calcifies.