immatureness

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im·ma·ture

(ĭm′ə-tyo͝or′, -cho͝or′, -to͝or′)

adj.

1. Not fully grown or developed: an immature plant.

2. Marked by or suggesting a lack of normal maturity: silly, immature behavior. See Synonyms at young.

An immature animal; a juvenile.

[Latin immātūrus : in-, not; see in-¹ + mātūrus, mature; see mā- in Indo-European roots.]

im′ma·ture′ly adv.

im′ma·tur′i·ty, im′ma·ture′ness n.

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Noun

immatureness - not having reached maturity

immaturity

state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"

greenness - the state of not being ripe

callowness, jejuneness, juvenility - lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life

prematureness, prematurity - the state of being premature

adolescence - in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood

puerility, childhood - the state of a child between infancy and adolescence

babyhood, infancy - the earliest state of immaturity

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It is true that for a few years after leaving the cradle he had exhibited a certain immatureness, but as soon as he put on knickerbockers and began to go about a little he outgrew all that.

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The First Year has disappointed the public and people have started raising their voice against heavy taxes, dearness and lack of good governance model that may root PTI on the right spot as inefficiency, immatureness and incompetency to manage affairs of the country has become a nightmare.