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" As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky."
Stephen Hunter

Meaning of "callowness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CALLOWNESS

ˈkæləʊnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CALLOWNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Callowness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CALLOWNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hair loss

Hair loss or baldness is a loss of hair from the head or body. Baldness can refer to general hair loss or male pattern baldness specifically. Some types of baldness can be caused by alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder. The extreme forms of alopecia areata are alopecia totalis, which involves the loss of all head hair, and alopecia universalis, which involves the loss of all hair from the head and the body. Baldness and hypotrichosis can have many causes, including fungal infection, traumatic damage, such as by compulsive pulling, as a result of radiotherapy or chemotherapy, and as a result of nutritional deficiencies such as iron, and as a result of autoimmune phenomena, including alopecia areata and hair loss associated with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Definition of callowness in the English dictionary

The definition of callowness in the dictionary is immaturity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CALLOWNESS

Amazonas · bonus · chlamydomonas · clonus · colonus · conus · Cronus · fallowness · hemionus · Jonas · Kaunas · nowness · onus · ozonous · Tithonus · tonus · woeness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CALLOWNESS

callipers · callipygian · callipygous · callistemon · callisthenic · callisthenics · Callisto · callithump · callithumpian · callop · callose · callosities · callosity · callous · calloused · callously · callousness · callow · calluna · callus

WORDS THAT END LIKE CALLOWNESS

askewness · awareness · business · darkness · fewness · fitness · happiness · hollowness · in the wilderness · lowness · mellowness · narrowness · newness · rawness · sallowness · shallowness · skewness · slowness · thickness · yellowness

Synonyms and antonyms of callowness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CALLOWNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «callowness» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «callowness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CALLOWNESS

Find out the translation of callowness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of callowness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «callowness» in English.
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الفتوة
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callowness
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অপরিপক্কতা
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Callowness
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callowness
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未熟さ
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callowness
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Callowness
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callowness
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callowness
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कॉलॉनेस
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acemi olduğuna
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callowness
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callowness
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about callowness

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QUOTES WITH «CALLOWNESS»

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Stephen Hunter
As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALLOWNESS»

Discover the use of callowness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to callowness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Call of the Wild
It advertised his callow- ness—a callowness sheer and unutterable. Both men were manifestly out of place, and why such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of things that passes understanding. Buck heard the chaffering , ...
Jack London, 2009
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The Intimate Strangeness of Being: Metaphysics After Dialectic
And perhaps this callowness is the justified reason for calling rationalism before the bar of critique, callowness calling also for the so- phistications of speculative dialectic. But what if a different callowness, a dearth of ontological astonishment,  ...
William Desmond, 2012
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Ecstasy
The whole world is filled with Your Glory? Some say variable good-evil is God speaking in different languages to different people. Much callowness clusters around God. Is God in the callowness? All the worlds are filled with Your Glory?
Michael Eigen, 2001
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Confessions to a Heathen Idol
"I,— Oh, I have n't any prejudice against A beguiling boys, nor against pollywogs either, for that callowness matter What I complain of is that a woman of your age and wisdom should find such apparent satisfaction in callowness. Great Scott !
Marian Lee, 1906
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The Inverted Forest: A Novel
There was an old-fashioned name for this stupidity: callowness. What they'd been celebrating last night, these callow young men and women, was the oldest and most tedious joke—the penis, the vagina, the spectacle of intercourse.
John Dalton, 2012
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50 Classic Novellas
It advertised his callowness--a callowness sheer and unutterable. Both men were manifestly out of place, and why such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of things that passes understanding. Buck heard the chaffering, ...
Golgotha Press, 2011
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The Folks
He despised the callowness of Margaret's way. She was enclosed in her own identity, could not see or feel outside herself-all that was not as she wanted it was wrong! She had the complete conviction of her own desires and prejudices, and ...
Ruth Suckow, 1992
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Adventure Study Units
F vocabUlary stUDy GUiDe 1. salient 11. manifest 2. formidable 12. provocation 3 . voracious 13. transient 4. amenities 14. malicious 5. copious 15. snub 6. prerogative 16. innocuous 7. callowness 17. conjuration 8. perambulating 18.
Nancy Garrity, 2000
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From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood: Children's Literature and ...
It advertised his callowness—a callowness sheer and unutterable. Both men were manifestly out of place, and why such as they should adventurethe North ispartof the mysteryof things that passes understanding. (London 1903: 126) Thereis a ...
Elizabeth Galway, 2010
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20 Classic Novels (Illustrated) Part-4:
Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt's revolver and a hunting-knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges. This belt was the most salient thing about him. It advertised his callowness--a callowness ...
Publishthis, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CALLOWNESS»

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Dubs' depth is vital for final
... of the panel to play on such a large stage but McGuirk insists that his side will cope admirably irrespective of their collective callowness. «Herald, Jun 15»
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The return of the merciless Mitchells
His visit here for the 2013 Ashes was marked by callowness and waywardness, and while he is yet to fully master the red ball (which in many ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jun 15»
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Uvaa: Movie Review
Unfortunately being young is synonymous with callowness in this film .So we get a lot of very bad acting from the youngsters. These guys a ... «SKJ Bollywood News, Jun 15»
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'More Fool' Fry: Comedian's New Memoir Misses The Mark
But if I envy the man's gifts and covet (I think) the glamour of his London life, I also regret the shocking callowness of his private voice in those ... «WFDD, Jun 15»
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England v New Zealand: New faces bring fresh hope
To put their relative callowness in perspective, New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Ross Taylor have a joint total of 418 caps. They may ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Newcastle set to miss out on leading French target
... but there is acknowledgment that the callowness of the current squad contributed to Newcastle's failings in the second half of the season, and ... «Durham Times, May 15»
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Brendan Rodgers: Liverpool must fill void after Steven Gerrard's …
Their collective callowness was evident again. Having taken the lead through Adam Lallana's finely taken goal, Liverpool fell apart against ... «The Guardian, May 15»
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REVIEW: Kingmaker, Above The Arts,
Laurence Dobiesz demonstrates how his character's initial callowness and uncertainty give way to reveal sharp political instincts and an ... «British Theatre, May 15»
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'My Golden Days' ('Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse'): Cannes Review
... the narrative would lack any tension, but thankfully their exchanges crackle with the excitement and callowness of youth and the naivety and ... «Hollywood Reporter, May 15»
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I Saw Shamir's Aura, But Will It Survive Fame?
What Sylvester means by “his voice” goes back to the rough but magnetic, simultaneous maturity and callowness of his speaking voice. (When I ... «Flavorwire, May 15»
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