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callowness

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cal⋅low

  [kal-oh]
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–adjective
1. immature or inexperienced: a callow youth.
2. (of a young bird) featherless; unfledged.
–noun
3. a recently hatched worker ant.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE calu bald; c. D kaal, G kahl bald, OCS golŭ bare

Related forms:
cal⋅low⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. untried, green, raw; naive, puerile, jejune.

Antonyms:
1. mature, adult, experienced.
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cal·low   (kāl'ō)   
adj.  Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature: a callow young man.

[Middle English calwe, bald, from Old English calu.]
cal'low·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

callow 
O.E. calu "bare, bald," prob. from W.Gmc. *kalwaz, perhaps from L. or Celt. From young birds with no feathers, meaning extended to any young inexperienced thing or creature (1580).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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