Immaturity

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immaturity \Im`ma*tu"ri*ty\, n. [L. immaturitas: cf. F.
     immaturit['e].]
     The state or quality of being immature or not fully
     developed; unripeness; incompleteness.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           When the world has outgrown its intellectual
           immaturity.                              --Caird.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immaturity
       n : not having reached maturity [syn: {immatureness}] [ant: {maturity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "immaturity":
     adulteration, amateurishness, amateurism, arrestment, babyishness,
     brand-newness, callowness, childishness, coarseness, crudeness,
     crudity, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, dewiness,
     erroneousness, fallibility, faultiness, freshness,
     gloss of novelty, greenness, ignorance, immatureness, impairment,
     imperfection, imprudence, impurity, inaccuracy, inadequacy,
     inadequateness, inadvisability, inattention, incompleteness,
     incompletion, inconsideration, indiscreetness, indiscretion,
     inexactitude, inexactness, inexpedience, inexperience, infancy,
     infantilism, injudiciousness, intactness, irrationality, juiciness,
     juniority, lack, lateness, maidenhood, mediocrity, minority,
     mint condition, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness,
     newness, nonage, nondevelopment, novelness, novelty, nowness,
     originality, oversimplicity, oversimplification, patchiness,
     pompousness, presentness, pristineness, puerilism, puerility,
     rawness, reasonlessness, recency, recentness, recklessness,
     reductionism, roughness, rudeness, sappiness, scrappiness,
     senselessness, short measure, short weight, shortage, shortcoming,
     simplism, sketchiness, strangeness, stuffiness, the rough,
     thoughtlessness, unaccustomedness, unacquaintance,
     unacquaintedness, uncommonness, uncultivation, underdevelopment,
     undevelopment, unevenness, unexperiencedness, unfamiliarity,
     unfinish, unfinishedness, unfledgedness, unintelligence,
     unperfectedness, unpracticedness, unprofessionalism,
     unprofessionalness, unreason, unreasonableness, unrefinement,
     unripeness, unsensibleness, unsoundness, unthoughtfulness,
     unusualness, unwisdom, unwiseness, virginity, want, witlessness