callowness

Noun

Meaning

lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

juvenility jejuneness youth simplicity darkness ignorance innocence blindness domestication incompleteness openness sincerity illiteracy freshness incapacity

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Antonyms

wile bluff hocus-pocus experience chicane corruption

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Hypernyms

immaturity immatureness

Examples

A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and the chiseled squint of the vetern. Steven Pressfield

Close letter words and terms

Calloway Calloway County callowly callrate calls in question calls into question