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callowness en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The condition of being callow; immaturity.
   • 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. 1957, Max Lerner, America as a Civilization, page 61:

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