Meaning & use
Callowness
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The state of being immature, inexperienced, or lacking in judgment, typically because of youth.
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His callowness showed when he argued confidently about a subject he barely understood.
The novel traces the narrator's callowness in youth and his gradual maturing.
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"Callow" originally meant "unfledged" or "bald," describing young birds without feathers, before it came to mean inexperienced in people.
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