immaturity

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.

immaturity - not having reached maturity immatureness 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 matureness, maturity - state of being mature; full development

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immaturity

noun

1. rawness, imperfection, greenness, unpreparedness, unripeness In spite of some immaturity of style, it showed real imagination.

2. childishness, puerility, callowness, juvenility, babyishness his immaturity and lack of social skills

Translations

immaturity [ˌɪməˈtjʊərɪtɪ] N → inmadurez f, falta f de madurez; [of tree, plant] → inmadurez f

immaturity [ˌɪməˈtjʊərɪti] n

(physical) → immaturité f

(= childishness) → immaturité f

immaturity

n → Unreife f

immaturity [ˌɪməˈtjʊərɪtɪ] n → immaturità