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Immatureness

The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.

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Adolescence 76% connected

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be…

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Babyhood 76% connected

The state or period of infancy.

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Childhood 76% connected

The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

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Greenness 76% connected

The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.

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Infancy 76% connected

The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.

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Juvenility 76% connected

Youthfulness; adolescence.

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Prematurity 76% connected

The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius.

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Puerility 76% connected

The quality of being puerile; childishness; puerileness.

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Immature 74% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Immature 74% connected

Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.

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Unripe 74% connected

Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.

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Unripe 74% connected

Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.

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Synonym 1

Immaturity 92% connected

The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.

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Matureness 94% connected

The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

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Matureness 94% connected

The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

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