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IMMATURITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not having reached maturity
Synonyms:
immatureness; immaturity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("immaturity" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immaturity"):
greenness (the state of not being ripe)
callowness; jejuneness; juvenility (lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life)
prematureness; prematurity (the state of being premature)
adolescence (in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood)
childhood; puerility (the state of a child between infancy and adolescence)
babyhood; infancy (the earliest state of immaturity)
Antonym:
maturity (state of being mature; full development)
Derivation:
immature (not yet mature)
immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity)
immature (not fully developed or mature; not ripe)
