immaturity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immātūritātem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪməˈt͡ʃʊɹɪti/

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Noun

immaturity (countable and uncountable, plural immaturities)

1. Youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown

   emotional immaturity

   childish immaturity

   stage of immaturity

   His constant joking showed his immaturity.

   The plant’s immaturity made it sensitive to frost.

Antonyms

• maturity

Translations

the state of being immature

• Asturian: inmadurez f
• Bulgarian: незрялост f (nezrjalost)
• Catalan: immaduresa (ca) f
• Danish: umodenhed c
• Dutch: onvolwassenheid (nl) f
• Estonian: ebaküpsus
• Finnish: kypsymättömyys (fi), epäkypsyys (fi), keskenkasvuisuus; lapsellisuus (fi) (of behavior)
• French: immaturité (fr) f
• Galician: inmaturidade (gl) f
• German: Unreife (de) f, Immaturität f
• Greek: ανωριμότητα (el) f (anorimótita)
• Hungarian: éretlenség (hu)
• Irish: anabaíocht f
• Italian: immaturità (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: umodenhet (no) m or f

• Polish: niedojrzałość f
• Portuguese: imaturidade (pt) f
• Romanian: imaturitate (ro) f
• Russian: незре́лость (ru) f (nezrélostʹ)
• Spanish: inmadurez (es) f
• Swedish: omogenhet (sv) c
• Ukrainian: незрі́лість f (nezrílistʹ)