immatureness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From immature +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

immatureness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being immature; immaturity.
    • 1665, Robert Boyle, edited by [John Weyland], Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. With a Discourse about Such Kind of Thoughts, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Alex[ander] Ambrose Masson; and sold by John Henry Parker, [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      the immatureness of some [trifles]

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