Immatureness

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.

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[Latin immtrus : in-, not; see in-¹ + mtrus, mature; see m-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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imma·turely adv.

imma·turi·ty, imma·tureness n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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