unripenessn.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈrʌɪpnᵻs/, U.S. /ˌənˈraɪpnᵻs/ The quality of being unripe.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun]
importunityc1451
unripenessa1500
inopportunity?a1513
unseasonableness1548
immaturity?c1550
untimeliness1580
intempestivity1654
inopportuneness1831
inopportunism1886
the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [noun] > state, quality, or fact of
youthhood971
youtha1100
youthheadc1220
youngnessc1350
tenderc1400
youthnessc1475
unripenessa1500
youthlikeness1549
youthfulness1587
primeve1619
juvenility1623
infantility1631
youthfullity1763
youthiness1821
underdevelopment1891
vealiness1895
the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young and inexperienced person > immaturity of young person
greenness?c1425
unripenessa1500
greenhead1588
coltishnessa1657
callowness1817
cubbishness1828
vealiness1895
preppiness1977
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [noun] > unreadiness or immaturity
rawnessOE
unripenessa1500
crudeness1541
greenness1574
immaturity1593
indigestion1630
rudeness1645
immatureness1665
inchoateness1845
crudity1870
inchoacy1871
rudimentariness1885
the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > state of being or becoming ripe or mature > unripeness
greennessc1450
crudity1707
unripeness1783
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxviii. §147. 432 I bifore come in vnrypnes and i cried.
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Immaturitas, vnrypenesse, to muche haste in dooyng a thynge before the tyme.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. f. 241 The vnripenesse of theyr age.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 126 The Ripenesse, or Vnripenesse of the Occasion (as we said) must euer be well weighed.
1678 A. Marvell Acct. Growth Popery (new ed.) 42 In this state of uncertainty and unripeness, the House Adjourned.
1722 J. Heywood Poems & Lett. Several Subj. Ded. p. i The Unripeness of my Age..will, I hope..apologize for any incorrect Lines which the Readers meet with.
1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 73 244 The unripeness of the barley.
1844 B. Price in A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold I. iv. 196 The unripeness of England for a free and unfettered discussion.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 46 Let the same conditions or unripeness be present in any kind of roots, and their effects will be much the same.
1942 Plant Physiol. 17 95 These fruits..were carefully selected from a large supply of fruits in almost identical state of unripeness.
1997 W. I. Miller Anat. Disgust iv. 86 It is ripeness and overripeness that invite disgust, not unripeness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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