NOUN | state | immatureness, immaturity | not having reached maturity |
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Meaning | not having reached maturity. | |
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Synonym | immaturity | |
Narrower | adolescence | In the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood |
callowness, jejuneness, juvenility | lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life | |
childhood, puerility | The state of a child between infancy and adolescence | |
greenness | The state of not being ripe | |
infancy, babyhood | The earliest state of immaturity | |
prematureness, prematurity | The state of being premature | |
Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
Opposite | maturity, matureness | state of being mature / mature |
Spanish | inmadurez | |
Catalan | immaduresa | |
Adjectives | immature | not yet mature |
immature | characteristic of a lack of maturity | |
immature | (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth | |
immature | not fully developed or mature |
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