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CALLOWNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does callowness mean?
• CALLOWNESS (noun)
The noun CALLOWNESS has 1 sense:
1. lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
Familiarity information: CALLOWNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
callowness; jejuneness; juvenility
Hypernyms ("callowness" is a kind of...):
immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)
Context examples
It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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