IMMATURENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immatureness mean? 

• IMMATURENESS (noun)
  The noun IMMATURENESS has 1 sense:

1. not having reached maturity

  Familiarity information: IMMATURENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMATURENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having reached maturity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

immatureness; immaturity

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

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

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

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)

Derivation:

immature (not yet mature)

immature (characteristic of a lack of maturity)

immature (not fully developed or mature; not ripe)

immature ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)