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im·ma·ture

 (ĭm′ə-tyo͝or′, -cho͝or′, -to͝or′)
adj.
1. Not fully grown or developed: an immature plant.
2. Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity: silly, immature behavior. See Synonyms at young.
n.
An immature animal; a juvenile.
[Latin immātūrus : in-, not; see in-1 + mātūrus, mature; see mā- in Indo-European roots.]
im′ma·ture′ly adv.
im′ma·tur′i·ty, im′ma·ture′ness n.
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im•ma•tu•ri•ty

(ˌɪm əˈtʃʊər ɪ ti, -ˈtʊər-, -ˈtyʊər-, -ˈtʃɜr-)

n., pl. -ties.
1. a state or condition of being immature.
2. an immature action or attitude.
[1530–40; < Latin]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.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
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Translations
عَدَم نُضوج
nezralost
umodenhed
vanòroski
imaturitate
nezrelosť
hamlıktoyluk

immaturity

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

[ˌɪməˈtjʊərɪti] n
(physical) → immaturité f
(= childishness) → immaturité f
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immaturity

n → Unreife f
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immaturity

[ˌɪməˈtjʊərɪtɪ] n → immaturità
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immature

(iməˈtjuə) adjective
1. childish and behaving like someone much younger.
2. not fully grown or fully developed; not ripe.
ˌimmaˈturity noun
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immaturity

n inmadurez f
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