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Definition of Callowness
1. Noun. Lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life.
Generic synonyms: Immatureness, Immaturity
Derivative terms: Jejune, Juvenile
Definition of Callowness
1. Noun. The condition of being callow; immaturity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Callowness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callowness
Literary usage of Callowness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... himself so far superior to them that he is unwilling to be shown his mistake,
ought to be tied to an apron string and smothered in his callowness. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... to them that he is unwilling to be shown his mistake, ought to be tied to an
apron string and smothered in his callowness. The real reason is that men ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"Perigot is still without even the first faint callowness of lip or chin ; yet he
is older by far than the oldest greybeard. He has- flown with the winged ..."
4. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... of the Yale Union," says Dr. Irvine, in a delightful illustrated brochure
which he afterward compiled, '' was a youth of exceeding great callowness. ..."
5. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... the fifth and succeeding centuries, until taken up by the currents of mingled
decrepitude and callowness which marked the coming of the mediaeval time. ..."
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