Crossword clues for immaturity
immaturity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immaturity \Im`ma*tu"ri*ty\, n. [L. immaturitas: cf. F. immaturit['e].] The state or quality of being immature or not fully developed; unripeness; incompleteness.
When the world has outgrown its intellectual
immaturity.
--Caird.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "untimeliness," from Latin immaturitatem (nominative immaturitas) "unripeness," from immaturus (see immature). Meaning "lack of maturity" attested from c.1600.
Wiktionary
n. youth; the condition of being immature or not fully grown
WordNet
n. not having reached maturity [syn: immatureness] [ant: maturity]
Usage examples of "immaturity".
It was such as these, their successors, whom his daughter characterised with scorn, impatient of the passing fads and fancies common to their age, of an immaturity which she herself had exemplified so much less venially.
Thus, while children normally develop the ability of introspection by the age of eight, their later indoctrination into the principles of scientific materialism may actually cause them to revert to a preadolescent state of psychological immaturity.
They say out of one side of their mouths that sex is okay and beautiful, but out of the other side they say that any real enthusiasm for sex is a sign of immaturity, Don Juanism, nymphomania, satyriasis, and social irresponsibility.
He had not protested the bad training, the immaturity of the troops, the vague guidelines of conduct, or his own unpreparedness as a combat infantry leader.
Unlike the apes and even the pithecines, walker infants could not forage for themselves until long after weaning: aside from their physical immaturity, the ability to exploit food sources like hunted meat, clams, and heavy-shelled nuts was not innate in the newborn, and so had to be learned.
Bobby tells me that anthropomorphizing animals, regardless of my experiences with them, is a sign of immaturity.
Despite their immaturity, the Dreamers had virtually unlimited power over the forces of nature, and I ruefully conceded that they could quite probably step over any barrier I might have tried to put in their way.
She wore no jewels, but her little, undeveloped neck and shoulders, of an exquisite immaturity, rose from the tulle bodice of her first decollete gown.
The staff have decided to exclude you from sitting the Abitur on account of immaturity.
He also knew, however, that course of action was predicated on their being afraid of his immaturity.
Is it in those doom-laden words the doctor proat the Ginsberg about previous emotional attachbeing symptoms of immaturity?
Perhaps this hostile immaturity stemmed from a lack of proper toilet training.