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immaturity

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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.immaturity - not having reached maturity
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

immaturity
Translations

immaturity [ɪməˈtjuərɪtɪ] ninmadurez f
immaturity [ɪməˈtjuərɪtɪ] nimmaturité f
immaturity [ɪməˈtjuərɪtɪ] immature nUnreife f
immaturity [ɪməˈtjuərɪtɪ] nimmaturità, mancanza di maturità


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Alas I your so called purity Is merely immaturity, And woman's nature plays its part Sincerely but in woman's art.
Her complexion was delicate and perfectly natural, the graceful lines of her figure suggested more the immaturity of youth than any undue slimness.
Now Pearl knew well enough who made her, for Hester Prynne, the daughter of a pious home, very soon after her talk with the child about her Heavenly Father, had begun to inform her of those truths which the human spirit, at whatever stage of immaturity, imbibes with such eager interest.
 
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