callowness

English

Etymology

From Middle English calowʒnes (“baldness”), equivalent to callow +‎ -ness. Cognate with West Frisian kealens (“baldness”).

Noun

callowness (usually uncountable, plural callownesses)

1. 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.