Meaning of IMMATURITY
| Pronunciation: | | `imuch'ûrutee
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| | Definition: | | [n] not having reached maturity |
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| | Synonyms: | | immatureness |
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| | Antonyms: | | matureness, maturity | | |
| | See Also: | | adolescence, babyhood, callowness, childhood, greenness, infancy, jejuneness, juvenility, prematureness, prematurity, puerility, state | |
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| | Definition: | | \Im`ma*tu"ri*ty\, n. [L. immaturitas: cf. F.
immaturit['e].]
The state or quality of being immature or not fully
developed; unripeness; incompleteness.
When the world has outgrown its intellectual
immaturity. --Caird.
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| | Related Terms: | | adulteration, amateurishness, amateurism, arrestment, babyishness, brand-newness, callowness, childishness, coarseness, crudeness, crudity, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dewiness, erroneousness, fallibility, faultiness, freshness, gloss of novelty, greenness, ignorance, immatureness, impairment, imperfection, imprudence, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, inadvisability, inattention, incompleteness, incompletion, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion, inexactitude, inexactness, inexpedience, inexperience, infancy, infantilism, injudiciousness, intactness, irrationality, juiciness, juniority, lack, lateness, maidenhood, mediocrity, minority, mint condition, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, nonage, nondevelopment, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, oversimplicity, oversimplification, patchiness, pompousness, presentness, pristineness, puerilism, puerility, rawness, reasonlessness, recency, recentness, recklessness, reductionism, roughness, rudeness, sappiness, scrappiness, senselessness, short measure, short weight, shortage, shortcoming, simplism, sketchiness, strangeness, stuffiness, the rough, thoughtlessness, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance, unacquaintedness, uncommonness, uncultivation, underdevelopment, undevelopment, unevenness, unexperiencedness, unfamiliarity, unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, unintelligence, unperfectedness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism, unprofessionalness, unreason, unreasonableness, unrefinement, unripeness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, unthoughtfulness, unusualness, unwisdom, unwiseness, virginity, want, witlessness |
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