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Noun
callowness (usually uncountable, plural callownesses)
- 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.1
Etymology
From Middle English calowʒnes (“baldness”), equivalent to callow + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian kealens (“baldness”).
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Link to original Footnotes
1957, Max Lerner, America as a Civilization, page 61: ↩
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