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    IMMATURITY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Not having reached maturityplay

    Synonyms:

    immatureness; immaturity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("immaturity" is a kind of...):

    state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immaturity"):

    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)

    childhood; puerility (the state of a child between infancy and adolescence)

    babyhood; infancy (the earliest state of immaturity)

    Antonym:

    maturity (state of being mature; full development)

    Derivation:

    immature (not yet mature)

    immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity)

    immature (not fully developed or mature; not ripe)

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