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immaturity|ɪməˈtjʊərɪtɪ|
[ad. L. immātūritāt-em untimely haste (Cicero), unripeness (Suetonius), f. immātūrus immature.]
The quality or condition of being immature.
†1. Prematureness; untimeliness. Obs.
c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 199 Hee was prevented..bie the immaturitie of his deathe, skarcelie having accomplished the vt. yeare of his reigne. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. ii. 43 His words (though spoke with some kind of hast and immaturity).
2. Unripeness; imperfect or incomplete state.
1606Holland Sueton. 54 The immaturity of young espoused wives. 1651Gataker Whitaker in Fuller's Abel Rediv. (1867) II. 112 His immaturity of years. 1764Harmer Observ. v. ii. 54 When the grapes shall not be gathered, as they were wont before to be, in a state of immaturity. 1845Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India (1854) 102 The men and women who chiefly compose the society leave home in their immaturity. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. vi. 82 The poem of later date..exhibits far less immaturity.
b. with pl. An immature plant, production, etc.
1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋77 Their own cruelties, infamy, immaturities. 1850H. Miller Footpr. Creat. x. (1874) 181 That the rich vegetation of the Coal Measures had been..composed of magnificent immaturities of the vegetable kingdom. |