Definition of Immaturity

1. Noun. Not having reached maturity.


Definition of Immaturity

1. n. The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

Definition of Immaturity

1. Noun. Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immaturity

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Medical Definition of Immaturity

1. The state or quality of being unripe or not fully developed. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immaturity

immaterialized
immaterializes
immaterializing
immaterially
immaterialness
immateriate
immature
immature cataract
immature granulocyte
immatured
immaturely
immatureness
immatures
immaturin
immaturities
immaturity (current term)
immeability
immeadiately
immeasurabilities
immeasurability
immeasurable
immeasurableness
immeasurables
immeasurably
immeasured
immechanical
immediable
immediacies
immediacy
immediate

Literary usage of Immaturity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. When the Victim Is a Child by Debra Whitcomb (1992)
"First is the child's immaturity with regard to physical, cognitive, and emotional ... Needs Related to immaturity Waterman has identified three types of ..."

2. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"We have already shown how, until very recently, a large pro- immaturity portion ... Their freshness and immaturity on entering college were recognized and ..."

3. Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education by National Society for the Study of Education (1908)
"... treatment of a problem where an advanced knowledge would have been much more appropriate. 5. Illustration from immaturity of geographical terminology. ..."

4. The Family: An Ethnographical and Historical Outline with Descriptive Notes by Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (1908)
"... of immaturity after birth — is a more or less helpless and dependent state. In order that organisms may survive this period, protection is necessary. ..."

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