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Immatureness

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im·ma·ture  (m-tyr, -tr, -chr)
adj.
1. Not fully grown or developed. See Synonyms at young.
2. Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity: silly, immature behavior.
[Latin immtrus : in-, not; see in-1 + mtrus, mature; see m-1 in Indo-European roots.]
imma·turely adv.
imma·turi·ty, imma·tureness n.
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Noun1.immatureness - not having reached maturity
immaturity
state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
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
puerility, childhood - the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
babyhood, infancy - the earliest state of immaturity
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It is true that for a few years after leaving the cradle he had exhibited a certain immatureness, but as soon as he put on knickerbockers and began to go about a little he outgrew all that.
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
 
 
 
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