immaturityn.

Brit.

/ˌɪməˈtjʊərᵻti/,

/ˌɪməˈtʃʊərᵻti/,

/ˌɪməˈtjɔːrᵻti/,

/ˌɪməˈtʃɔːrᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌɪməˈtʊrədi/,

/ˌɪməˈtʃʊrədi/,

/ˌɪməˈtʃərədi/

Forms: 1500s immaturitie, 1500s– immaturity.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin immātūritāt-, immātūritās.

Etymology: < classical Latin immātūritāt-, immātūritās prematureness, untimeliness (Cicero), unripeness (Suetonius) < immātūrus immature adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Middle French, French immaturité (16th cent.), Italian immaturità (1598), both earliest in sense 2.

†1. Prematureness; untimeliness. Obsolete.Chiefly with reference to death.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun]

importunityc1451

unripenessa1500

inopportunity?a1513

unseasonableness1548

immaturity?c1550

untimeliness1580

intempestivity1654

inopportuneness1831

inopportunism1886

?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 199 Hee was prevented..bie the immaturitie of his deathe, skarcelie having accomplished the v^t. yeare of his reigne.

1643 J. Ley Monitor of Mortalitie Ep. Ded. sig. A3 The saying of Lactantius, censuring the folly of those, who complaine of deaths immaturity.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 43 His words (though spoke with some kind of hast and immaturity).

1709 in Wks. J. Suckling (new ed.) Pref. sig. A3^v The Immaturity of his Death, which did not allow him time for Action.

1814 J. Berington Lit. Hist. Middle Ages iii. 197 Contemporary writers..speak rapturously of his [sc. Otho III's] acquirements; and if these had taken a right direction, we might have had reason to lament the immaturity of his death.

a. The quality, condition, or state of being not yet fully grown or developed; unripeness; juvenility; (also) newness. Also: an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [noun] > unreadiness or immaturity

rawnessOE

unripenessa1500

crudeness1541

greenness1574

immaturity1593

indigestion1630

rudeness1645

immatureness1665

inchoateness1845

crudity1870

inchoacy1871

rudimentariness1885

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 178 Pythagoras Silence was woont to be a rule for Ignorance, or Immaturity.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 54 The immaturity of young espoused wives.

1651 T. Gataker in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 404 His immaturity of years.

1703 Observator 13 Mar. The Immaturity of their Age and Reason renders them Incapable of making a Vigorous Defence of their Chastity.

1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. v. ii. 54 When the grapes shall not be gathered, as they were wont before to be, in a state of immaturity.

1808 Universal Mag. June 496/2 It is..such as only a very highly endowed mind could produce, at such an immaturity of age.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 203 The men and women who chiefly compose the society leave home in their immaturity.

1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 82 The poem of later date..exhibits far less immaturity.

1928 A. P. McKenzie tr. Y. Hibino Nippon Shindo Ron xiii. 78 Emerging from her period of immaturity her [sc. the Japanese Empire's] present intellectual and material achievements are inferior in no way to those of foreign nations.

1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. iv. 35 Initiation..concerns the transition from immaturity to adult membership of the tribe.

1976 Adv. Stud. Behavior 7 34 An immaturity in these pathways related perhaps to their degree of myelination or to some other histochemical property of young neurons.

2006 Booklist (Nexis) 15 Dec. 15 The Civil War Army of the Potomac's Balloon Corps..was disbanded..to some extent, [because of] the technological immaturity of balloons.

b. Behaviour, thought, or attitudes not befitting or characteristic of a mature person; childishness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun]

chilcea1200

fauntelte1377

bairnheid?a1513

childishness1539

babishness1557

puerility1576

childnessa1616

puerileness1727

babyhood1748

babyishness1836

immaturity1895

1895 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. July 129 The wife's immaturity, her childish sensitiveness to imagined slights, her uneasy little vanities and egotisms.

1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xvii. 207 Her inconsequence and flapperish immaturity.

1976 Lynnwood (Washington) Enterprise 6 Oct. 2/2 He would be made to understand the immaturity of his actions. Eventually, he would be retrained for a useful career as a computer programmer.

1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night (2000) 23 No whining about his immaturity, no accusations of childish self-indulgence, no tutting disapproval of his alcohol and fast-food consumption.

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 June a15/5 Current explanations typically involve blaming the men themselves: Some blame pandemic immaturity (XY-chromosomers won't ‘man up’ and accept adult responsibility for wives and children).

3. Something that is immature; an immature action, characteristic, or feature. Usually in plural.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [noun] > unreadiness or immaturity > instance of

immaturity1651

cruditya1656

the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > young or immature plant(s)

planteina1400

youngling1559

plantling1766

yearling1789

immaturity1849

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋77 Their own cruelties, infamy, immaturities.

1664 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry II. ii. x. 187 The external fire imployed in the calcination..concocts and digests all the unripenesse or pretended immaturities.

1705 J. Collier Ess. Moral Subj.: Pt. III 35 The Decays or Immaturities of Reason.

1768 Polit. Reg. Sept. 151 The unnatural immaturities of pride, over-grown wealth, insolence and opposition.

1808 J. Bean Zeal without Innovation v. 201 The hard controvertist never waits for the growth of truth. He treats its present immaturities with severity.

1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 185 That the rich vegetation of the Coal Measures had been..composed of magnificent immaturities of the vegetable kingdom.

1923 F. L. Pattee Devel. Amer. Short Story ix. 213 The later Aldrich considered them, like the most of his early lyrics, immaturities to be forgotten.

1978 G. De Vos in G. D. Spindler Making Psychol. Anthropol. vii. 228 Homosexuality in Japan is seen as an immaturity.., but does not evoke any idea of possible punitive social sanctions.

1996 Independent 3 Jan. (Suppl.) 11/1 Recent plays..produced by young men for young men, with a bravado about their evasions and immaturities.

2001 K. Ripley Inclusion for Children with Dyspraxia v. 33 There may be grammatical immaturities which will affect their ability to speak in sentences.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	immaturity
释义	immaturityn. Brit. /ˌɪməˈtjʊərᵻti/, /ˌɪməˈtʃʊərᵻti/, /ˌɪməˈtjɔːrᵻti/, /ˌɪməˈtʃɔːrᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɪməˈtʊrədi/, /ˌɪməˈtʃʊrədi/, /ˌɪməˈtʃərədi/ Forms: 1500s immaturitie, 1500s– immaturity. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin immātūritāt-, immātūritās. Etymology: < classical Latin immātūritāt-, immātūritās prematureness, untimeliness (Cicero), unripeness (Suetonius) < immātūrus immature adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Middle French, French immaturité (16th cent.), Italian immaturità (1598), both earliest in sense 2. †1. Prematureness; untimeliness. Obsolete.Chiefly with reference to death. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [noun] importunityc1451 unripenessa1500 inopportunity?a1513 unseasonableness1548 immaturity?c1550 untimeliness1580 intempestivity1654 inopportuneness1831 inopportunism1886 ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Eng. Hist. (1846) I. 199 Hee was prevented..bie the immaturitie of his deathe, skarcelie having accomplished the v^t. yeare of his reigne. 1643 J. Ley Monitor of Mortalitie Ep. Ded. sig. A3 The saying of Lactantius, censuring the folly of those, who complaine of deaths immaturity. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. ii. 43 His words (though spoke with some kind of hast and immaturity). 1709 in Wks. J. Suckling (new ed.) Pref. sig. A3^v The Immaturity of his Death, which did not allow him time for Action. 1814 J. Berington Lit. Hist. Middle Ages iii. 197 Contemporary writers..speak rapturously of his [sc. Otho III's] acquirements; and if these had taken a right direction, we might have had reason to lament the immaturity of his death. 2. a. The quality, condition, or state of being not yet fully grown or developed; unripeness; juvenility; (also) newness. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [noun] > unreadiness or immaturity rawnessOE unripenessa1500 crudeness1541 greenness1574 immaturity1593 indigestion1630 rudeness1645 immatureness1665 inchoateness1845 crudity1870 inchoacy1871 rudimentariness1885 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 178 Pythagoras Silence was woont to be a rule for Ignorance, or Immaturity. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 54 The immaturity of young espoused wives. 1651 T. Gataker in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 404 His immaturity of years. 1703 Observator 13 Mar. The Immaturity of their Age and Reason renders them Incapable of making a Vigorous Defence of their Chastity. 1764 T. Harmer Observ. Passages Script. v. ii. 54 When the grapes shall not be gathered, as they were wont before to be, in a state of immaturity. 1808 Universal Mag. June 496/2 It is..such as only a very highly endowed mind could produce, at such an immaturity of age. 1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 203 The men and women who chiefly compose the society leave home in their immaturity. 1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 82 The poem of later date..exhibits far less immaturity. 1928 A. P. McKenzie tr. Y. Hibino Nippon Shindo Ron xiii. 78 Emerging from her period of immaturity her [sc. the Japanese Empire's] present intellectual and material achievements are inferior in no way to those of foreign nations. 1941 A. C. Bouquet Compar. Relig. iv. 35 Initiation..concerns the transition from immaturity to adult membership of the tribe. 1976 Adv. Stud. Behavior 7 34 An immaturity in these pathways related perhaps to their degree of myelination or to some other histochemical property of young neurons. 2006 Booklist (Nexis) 15 Dec. 15 The Civil War Army of the Potomac's Balloon Corps..was disbanded..to some extent, [because of] the technological immaturity of balloons. b. Behaviour, thought, or attitudes not befitting or characteristic of a mature person; childishness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [noun] chilcea1200 fauntelte1377 bairnheid?a1513 childishness1539 babishness1557 puerility1576 childnessa1616 puerileness1727 babyhood1748 babyishness1836 immaturity1895 1895 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. July 129 The wife's immaturity, her childish sensitiveness to imagined slights, her uneasy little vanities and egotisms. 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xvii. 207 Her inconsequence and flapperish immaturity. 1976 Lynnwood (Washington) Enterprise 6 Oct. 2/2 He would be made to understand the immaturity of his actions. Eventually, he would be retrained for a useful career as a computer programmer. 1999 C. Brookmyre One Fine Day in Middle of Night (2000) 23 No whining about his immaturity, no accusations of childish self-indulgence, no tutting disapproval of his alcohol and fast-food consumption. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 26 June a15/5 Current explanations typically involve blaming the men themselves: Some blame pandemic immaturity (XY-chromosomers won't ‘man up’ and accept adult responsibility for wives and children). 3. Something that is immature; an immature action, characteristic, or feature. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [noun] > unreadiness or immaturity > instance of immaturity1651 cruditya1656 the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > young or immature plant(s) planteina1400 youngling1559 plantling1766 yearling1789 immaturity1849 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋77 Their own cruelties, infamy, immaturities. 1664 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre Compend. Body Chymistry II. ii. x. 187 The external fire imployed in the calcination..concocts and digests all the unripenesse or pretended immaturities. 1705 J. Collier Ess. Moral Subj.: Pt. III 35 The Decays or Immaturities of Reason. 1768 Polit. Reg. Sept. 151 The unnatural immaturities of pride, over-grown wealth, insolence and opposition. 1808 J. Bean Zeal without Innovation v. 201 The hard controvertist never waits for the growth of truth. He treats its present immaturities with severity. 1849 H. Miller Foot-prints of Creator 185 That the rich vegetation of the Coal Measures had been..composed of magnificent immaturities of the vegetable kingdom. 1923 F. L. Pattee Devel. Amer. Short Story ix. 213 The later Aldrich considered them, like the most of his early lyrics, immaturities to be forgotten. 1978 G. De Vos in G. D. Spindler Making Psychol. Anthropol. vii. 228 Homosexuality in Japan is seen as an immaturity.., but does not evoke any idea of possible punitive social sanctions. 1996 Independent 3 Jan. (Suppl.) 11/1 Recent plays..produced by young men for young men, with a bravado about their evasions and immaturities. 2001 K. Ripley Inclusion for Children with Dyspraxia v. 33 There may be grammatical immaturities which will affect their ability to speak in sentences. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1550
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