IMMATURITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immaturity mean? 

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

1. not having reached maturity

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMATURITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having reached maturity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

immatureness; immaturity

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)

 Context examples 

In the majority of cases, it appears in the first week of life and is classified as physiologic due to accelerated destruction of erythrocytes and liver immaturity.

(Neonatal Jaundice, NCI Thesaurus)