Callowness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being callow; immaturity. uncountable, usually

    "It is likely that historians will look back on American life and see it — with its truths and errors, its callownesses and obsessions and insights, its childishness and its power — as one of the memorable civilizations of history."

  2. 2
    lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life wordnet

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agnosticismbathoschildishnesscoarsenesscruditydeficiency

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"It is likely that historians will look back on American life and see it — with its truths and errors, its callownesses and obsessions and insights, its childishness and its power — as one of the memorable civilizations of history."

Etymology

From Middle English calowʒnes (“baldness”), equivalent to callow + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian kealens (“baldness”).

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