callowness
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English calowʒnes (“baldness”), equivalent to callow + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian kealens (“baldness”).
Noun edit
callowness (usually uncountable, plural callownesses)
- The condition of being callow; immaturity.
- 1957, Max Lerner, America as a Civilization, page 61:
- 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.