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CALLOWNESS

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

• CALLOWNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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