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immaturity

[im-uh-choor-i-tee, -toor-, -tyoor-, -chur-] / ˌɪm əˈtʃʊər ɪ ti, -ˈtʊər-, -ˈtjʊər-, -ˈtʃɜr- /
NOUN
childhood
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Iain Duguid KC for the third teenager said he was 14-years-old at the time of the murder and his "immaturity" had been highlighted in criminal justice social work reports.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The company’s performance was affected by revenue immaturity of its new routes at Milan Linate and Rome Fiumicino airports, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

Paul ranted against the “petty vindictiveness” of the move, how “the level of immaturity is beyond words,” how he had lost “a lot of respect” for Trump, and how it wouldn’t stop him.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025

Musk responded with characteristic immaturity towards critics, prompting Steve Bannon to call Musk a “toddler” who needed a “wellness check.”

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

The chaplain would encourage Nately with nods of comprehension or assent, amused by his candor and immaturity.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

They were like the mom and dad of our friend group: very steady, and mature in a way that felt like a rebuke to our own high school immaturities.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2019

“With all the immaturities, imperfections, uncertainties that are reflected in teenagers.”

From MSNBC ● Aug. 24, 2015

At the age of 32, novelist William Vollmann displays the exasperating immaturities of a precocious teenager.

From Time Magazine Archive

Raul is a good subject, a tangle of immaturities held together by intelligence.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dropped my backpack on the floor because I knew it’d startle her, and even though there were only the next fifty-some summer days between me and high school, I wasn’t above these immaturities.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth




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