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immaturity

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊɹɪti/
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  • CMU ARPABET: IH2 M AH0 CH UH1 R IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • emotional immaturity
  • childish immaturity
  • stage of immaturity
  • His constant joking showed his immaturity.
  • The plant’s immaturity made it sensitive to frost.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

not having reached maturity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: immatureness

Antonyms: maturity

Broader terms: state

Narrower terms: greenness, callowness, jejuneness, juvenility, prematureness, prematurity, adolescence, childhood, puerility, infancy, babyhood

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immātūritātem.

Across languages

Translations

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Asturian: inmadurez — the state of being immature
  • Bulgarian: незрялост (nezrjalost) — the state of being immature
  • Catalan: immaduresa — the state of being immature
  • Danish: umodenhed — the state of being immature
  • Dutch: onvolwassenheid — the state of being immature
  • Estonian: ebaküpsus — the state of being immature
  • Finnish: kypsymättömyys — the state of being immature
  • Finnish: epäkypsyys — the state of being immature
  • Finnish: keskenkasvuisuus — the state of being immature
  • Finnish: lapsellisuus — the state of being immature
  • French: immaturité — the state of being immature
  • Galician: inmaturidade — the state of being immature
  • German: Unreife — the state of being immature
  • German: Immaturität — the state of being immature
  • Greek: ανωριμότητα (anorimótita) — the state of being immature
  • Hungarian: éretlenség — the state of being immature
  • Irish: anabaíocht — the state of being immature
  • Italian: immaturità — the state of being immature
  • Norwegian Bokmål: umodenhet — the state of being immature
  • Polish: niedojrzałość — the state of being immature
  • Portuguese: imaturidade — the state of being immature
  • Romanian: imaturitate — the state of being immature
  • Russian: незре́лость (nezrélostʹ) — the state of being immature
  • Spanish: inmadurez — the state of being immature
  • Swedish: omogenhet — the state of being immature
  • Ukrainian: незрі́лість (nezrílistʹ) — the state of being immature
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