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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IMMATURITY

Im `ma *tu "ri *ty, n. Etym: [L. immaturitas: cf. F. immaturité. ]

 

Defn: The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness. When the world has outgrown its intellectual immaturity. Caird.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

immaturity

im ma tu ri ty |ˌiməˈCHo͝oriti ɪməˈtʃʊrəti | noun the state of being immature or not fully grown. behavior that is appropriate to someone younger: they were shocked by such immaturity in a grown man.

 

Oxford Dictionary

immaturity

im |ma ¦tur |ity |ˌɪməˈtʃɔːrɪti, ˌɪməˈtʃʊərɪti, ˌɪməˈtjɔːrɪti, ˌɪməˈtjʊərɪti | noun [ mass noun ] the state of being immature or not fully grown: the immaturity of the immune system in very young children makes them especially vulnerable. behaviour that is appropriate to someone younger: they were shocked by such immaturity in a grown man.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

immaturity

immaturity noun 1 the immaturity of the fruit | the immaturity of the technology: unripeness, greenness, sourness; newness, rawness, crudeness, crudity, imperfection, incompleteness, lack of completion, lack of development. 2 they were shocked by such immaturity in a grown man: childishness, babyishness, infantilism, juvenility, puerility, lack of experience, inexperience, unworldliness, naivety, ingenuousness.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

immaturity

im ma tu ri ty /ɪ̀mət j ə rəti /名詞 U 未熟, 未完成 ; 幼稚な態度 [行動 ].