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callownesses

callownesses is the plural of callowness.

Meaning of callowness

Noun

callowness (usually uncountable, plural callownesses)

  1. (usually) The condition of being callow; immaturity.
    • 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.1957, Max Lerner, America as a Civilization, page 61

Questions about callownesses

What is callownesses the plural of?
Callownesses is the plural of callowness.

Words near callownesses in the dictionary

  1. callower
  2. callowest
  3. Callowhill
  4. callowly
  5. callowness
  6. callownesses
  7. callows
  8. callrate
  9. callrates
  10. calls
  11. calls 'em as one sees 'em

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